On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 08:58 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > So this thread kind of got forgotten about without any action. Here's > where it left off. > > current situation: > User signs up and gets account@xxxx and firstname.lastname@xxxx > > The problem: > accounts are unique but firstname.lastname is not. This causes > collisions. > Firstname.Lastname may (and currently does) contain characters that > postfix and sendmail freak out about. > > Secondary problem: > People think firstname.lastname sounds professional while > accountname@xxxx may not. > > > I'd like to move forward with removing the firstname.lastname addresses > after sending out a notification. Secondary issues aside, our current > model can't work forever and already causes some issues. > > Are there any major detractors? > I think it's a good plan - we should be willing to keep a couple of fname.lname aliases for some folks who have already published them/used them elsewhere. And we should say as much in the warning email. but by and large I think killing them will be fine. -sv
