Re: Address

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:52:23AM -0800, lorraine Girlington wrote:
> I have a suggestion. How about making it mandatory that email names are
> first initial, last name or first initial, middle initial, last name. This
> is how LBNL gets away with having all of their employees on the email
> __@lbl.gov.
>
> I would have liked my UCLINK email address to have been at least first
> initial and last name, but I was limited in characters. I hope that
> limitation will end with the old system.

The new system will not be limited to 8 characters, so you'll be able
to choose a longer name or alias if you wish.

For the BEEF Report, we considered automatic assignment of names, and
eventually had to discard the idea because of the problem resolving
conflicts. Probably not an issue for someone named Girlington, but
there are 18 "Jennifer Lee"s on campus.

See the discussion of the issues at
<http://beef.berkeley.edu/report/namespace.html>.

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Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall