From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 12:50:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22088 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22081; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id OAA13921; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:47:15 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199610071947.OAA13921@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: User name length limit increase To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:47:15 -0500 (CDT) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, kline@tera.com, branson@widomaker.com, kajtzu@iug.org, erik@il.ft.hse.nl, questions@FreeBSD.org, Jos.Vissers@telebyte.NL, isp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610071937.MAA06009@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Oct 7, 96 12:37:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > because that is not a login, but rather a mailbox address? > > Mmmf; yeah, and it's a mail alias like Mike > Murphy says. --I've relied on aliases for > smail3 stuff months, years back. > > Still, same question to the Core gurus: why > can't the default be reset to 64 bytes MAX > for login? Maybe because it would be a real pain to have to remember 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 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. ... JG