Re: Open 7.3 items

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 07:21 pm, Sander Steffann wrote:
> I think choosing . as the delimiter is a dangerous choice... People have
> not expected it to be special until now, so maybe another character can be
> chosen? I would suggest a colon if possible, so you would get dbname:user.
> I don't expect that a lot of people use a colon as the dbname or username,
> but I could be very wrong here.

The choices have been enumerated as . and @.  I personally vote for either:
user@db
OR
db!user
(sorry, having been a UUCP node admin shows at times...)  To my eyes the bang 
notation is more of a 'divider' than the @.  Unless there is some _really_ 
good reason to not use !, that is. :-)
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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