Re: Open 7.3 items

We are clearly going for user@db now.

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Lamar Owen wrote:
> 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. :-)
> -- 
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11
> 

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