Barry Warsaw writes: > Further, I have a strong personal preference for "no user names", > or alternatively, using email addresses as their "user name". I > think user names are essentially contrived extra information for > which there's no need, when clearly your identity is your email > address.
Clearly that's *an* identity, yes, and for social and volunteer sites it's one of the few things that is operationally verifiable for most users (except for those wonderfully expressive and mnemonic, not to mention easy-to-type, PGP keys!), so some email address should be the "main" user identifier. OTOH I don't see why a person having an (optional, additional) nickname is bad. > We've long debated, but never attempted, a "centralized user > database" component, partly because we can't decide whether that > should be a separate piece that the core, Postorius, and HK (and at > some point, mailmania) talk to, or whether it should just live in > the core. Another problem is Mailman in the enterprise, which probably has its own database already. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
