On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Quasar Jarosz <quasar(a)ja.rosz.org> wrote:
> Could we just call it "Login name"? This sounds really
like a bad
> macintoshism to me -- generating nonsensical name just for sake
> of not sounding like a computerese -- even the Aunt Tillie these
> days knows what login name is, and this duo "Name/Short Name" is
> guaranteed to confuse everybody.
I agree, Short Name sounds awful, and doesn't seem to mean anything.
"Login name" or "Username" would make much more sense.
+1