Who has an underscore in their name?
Jenny_G comes to mind.
I mean, really, there's no limit to the punctuation, isn't there? Didn't a /mieskie register (and get booted, but, yeah, well)? Someone could register with an asterisk. Maybe someone has.
Eggs. The living legend needs eggs. Or maybe another milk.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Rebecca Lizard - Feb 26, 2003 8:00:37 pm PST #3260 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 8:10:28 pm PST #3261 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Spawn1, DCM1101 (Paul's user name), and a couple others I think use numbers. Anyone with ~? I know they were popular before WX let you lc your name without them.
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 8:12:59 pm PST #3262 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Also, FUCKERS!!!!!
We seem to have a lot of characters in usernames that I wouldn't have expected.
John H - Feb 26, 2003 8:52:03 pm PST #3263 of 10000
It it's really that complicated, I think the concept of email address needs to be redefined to be "the bits wrapped around the @", and put the username somewhere else.
Not that you can't write a regular expression to say "anything at all goes here" but then you have to start working from the other end, "anything at all except for the @ symbol", etc.
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 8:53:06 pm PST #3264 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ooo! Did I mention we have people with @ in their names?
John H - Feb 26, 2003 8:56:58 pm PST #3265 of 10000
Did I mention we have people with @ in their names?
t starts weeping quietly
Jon B. - Feb 26, 2003 8:58:22 pm PST #3266 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Did I mention we have people with @ in their names?
One user. I'm sure we could ask him to change it.
P.M. Marc - Feb 26, 2003 9:02:45 pm PST #3267 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yeah, that's a good idea.
How hard would it be to make some characters illegal in usernames?
John H - Feb 26, 2003 9:10:34 pm PST #3268 of 10000
I'm still a bit confused as to why we're recording, or using, people's names in the format:
John H <john@something.com>
surely if we just use the
john@something.com
bit the problem goes away?
Or, alternatively, why don't we run a quick regex over the name we're inserting, the bit in red here:
John H <john@something.com>
so that, even if my chosen username is:
J_@h.n _.*._ ~-H-~
it gets stripped back to the legal characters before being used.
Connie Neil - Feb 26, 2003 10:18:10 pm PST #3269 of 10000
brillig
once again watching in fascination as the great minds speak in unknown tongues and wave their hands in mystic configurations