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- From: markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:40:28 -0500
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Here's the problem with all this. 8 characters for a name. Yes, in a hypothetical sense you have 2.183401056?10^14 possible passwords if you use 8 ascii alpha/numeric characters with no punctuation characters, but the vast majority of that space are random strings not suitable for nicknames or meaningful identifiers. For instance, I can't see that any remaining meaningful permutations of "john smith" could possibly be left. How many email addresses do they assign a year? How many back-logged names did they create at first? When an alum dies, does their email address become available? > Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> writes: > >> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:24:54AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >>> Eric Chadbourne <sillystring at protonmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > Off topic, warlord at MIT.EDU, is the best email ever. >>> >>> Thanks. I've had it since 1989. >> >> MIT trivia: once you have a username, you can't change it. >> >> http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/dont-screw-up-your-username > > Only mostly true. I know a handful of people who successfully changed > their usernames. It's rare, and only done in extreme circumstances. > But it *can* be done. > >> -dsr- > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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