Re: Email address vs Nickname?

Jay Levitt
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:27:40 -0000

In article <4234CCEB.4080405-tH0n/LiDeu9BWQWeTLFoew@public.gmane.org>,
ben-
tH0n/LiDeu9BWQWeTLFoew-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org
says...
> I''m putting together a rails sites with multiple users. I want to
be
> able to refer to each user as:
>
> http://site.com/user/:username
>
> Which works fine - however, it has brought home to me the fact that only
> identifying users by email address could be annoying (ie - having to
> post your email address whenever you post a link to your home on the
> site). But I want to promote transparency in the site and avoid
> complexity - thus I designed the site using only the email address as a
> user identifier.

Belated comment:

E-Mail addresses can contain plus signs, percent signs, question marks,
and forward slashes.  Can your URLs?


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