On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:34:21PM +0100, Bob Walker wrote: >which still doesnt scale very well. since firstname.lastname2 just looks silly >and for that matter the . will probably confuse some things. Also quite >frankly >its far too long as a username.
And when Mr Firstname Lastname is brought in as a president a few years down the line, he's not going to be happy to be firstname.lastname7. >im fond of first initial last initial then a number. eg bw1 >then have aliases for email. The only really practical approach seems to be to let people choose whatever username they like, and have lots of role aliases. R