Re: Email address vs Nickname?

3kru-hpyd-5+VhGm8TZF7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:31:13 -0000

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:29:47 -0800, Ben Nolan
<ben-tH0n/LiDeu9BWQWeTLFoew@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I guess I''ve decided that I have to support nicknames (login
names) for
> users, for nicer URLs and some spam protection - but I just thought
I''d
> say that it sucks, because I like using email addresses only.

I, on the other hand, hate websites that force me to use an email
address as my login. You see, I don''t trust *any* website to not SPAM
me, so I create disposable email addresses for each site that I sign
up to. Having to lookup my list of disposable addresses every time I
need to sign in to a particular site is a huge hassle, whereas I
always stick to a single username for everything (no collisions so
far). Email addresses change, can be extremely long, people may not
like giving them out... the list goes on. Why force your users to do
something they don''t want to do?


--John