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Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? 
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:30:11 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 	I remember a discussion a while back that the changes to allow
> user names of greater than 8 characters that are presently working in
> current would be back-ported to 2.2.x RSN.  I'm wondering if this
> change will be made in time for the 2.2.5 release.  

Hmm, I'm not sure who told you that but it was definitely never our
intention to go to >8 character usernames in the 2.2-stable branch.
There is too much potential upheaval associated with that change and
so we've decided to take our lumps all at once with 3.0.

					Jordan