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From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com>
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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: User name length limit increase
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Joe Greco wrote:
> my.very.long.and.annoying.log.in.name.which.formats.poorly.in.w@freebsd.org
> 
> % w
>  2:44PM  up 62 days,  8:32, 1 user, load averages: 0.25, 0.14, 0.09
> USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> my.very.long.and.annoying.log.in.name.which.formats.poorly.in.w   p1 freefall          08Aug96  3:32 w
> %
> 
> Aside from the traditional "size" argument, I don't see anything that would
> prevent a site from doing this.  ON THE OTHER HAND, I see no particularly
> good reason to implement it as default .. particularly with 64 characters.

 Agreed :-) 64 characters is a bit excessive.. but 32 would not be..
 for the same reason as that mail alias.... this compnay has 5000+
 associates and I have many occurances of people with the same name
 so anything I can do to make it idiot proof is a good thing... for
 instance my name has 16 characters in it..

 branson.matheson@ferg.com would be nice and easy to remember. On the
 other hand.. I would not want to type that all the time to login.. so
 there is a trade off... for my users here... I may force them to use
 the long name.. but my power users I would probably let them have the
 shorter name.

  -branson
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