Re: Using nicknames on planet?

Dave Page wrote:
> Some people have far more common names than you guys, and a nickname
> is more memorable than dpage3729.
>   

When I sign up for sites that use some variation on your first and last 
name to assign usernames, I regularly discover the first one it suggests 
is available for me has a three digit number at the end.  I have a 
standard four-digit number I use in these cases, and I've even seen a 
collision on that before.

I used to live in a small town with only about 30K residents, and once 
when I forgot my ID card I discovered that just my gym had 3 Greg Smiths 
listed as members when they tried to confirm my membership by name.

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Greg Smith  2ndQuadrant US  Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com   www.2ndQuadrant.us