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(a)fp.o and firstname.lastname(a)fp.o
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(a)fp.o 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