Creating usernames using Google and Linkedin

[jim.halfpenny at gmail.com (Jim Halfpenny)]

Hi,
This did get me thinking about the schemes for selecting usernames in
use and how it's done in the wild. Maybe we could pool our knowledge
off-list somewhere and come up with the most commonly used patterns to
seed the script with.

Regards,
Jim

On 6/12/09, Mike Patterson <mike.patterson at unb.ca> wrote:
> Mike Patterson wrote on 6/12/09 12:20 PM:
> > Jason Wood wrote on 6/12/09 2:08 AM:
> > > The only real defense I can think of against this is to make sure
> > > usernames
> > > at your organization are not based on their names.  I know from
> > > experience
> > > that people will absolutely HATE it, but it would work.
> >
> > And don't tie email addresses to those userids either.  Especially if
> > people post to mailing lists with public archives and such.
>
> ps, tried it against my own org, and it didn't actually do very well,
> although I recognized a lot of the names it was trying.
>
> Is our org's default of first initial-middle initial-last name very
> unique?  If not, you might try putting that algorithm in.  (And what do
> we do for name collisions?  Put a number in the middle, so like
> ja34bloggins.)  Or I could send a patch.  ;)
>
> Mike
>
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