Username Standards on EduBuntu

[David Symons]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 19:27 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:
> Simon Fishley wrote:
> > I am looking for input from the community on user names.
> >   
> I think there's probably as many ways to name users as there are servers 
> available ;)

Hi Simon,

You could include birth-year or first-year-at-the-school in the username
to separate similar names.  For example my username for some recently
completed postgraduate study was 'david.symons.02' (I started in 2002).

Cheers, Dave.

PS. This reminded me of a previous employment where 4 letter usernames
were used: the first 3 letters of the surname followed by the first
initial.  So mine was "symd" for example.

However my then colleague Diane Turner wasn't too happy with her
prospective username ;-).

(she ended up getting "turn").

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David Symons
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