Username Standards on EduBuntu

[nigel barker]

Here in Japan, use of birthdate is common, eg. yoko0816, where the 0816
means august 16th.




> 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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