It takes long enough just to load the combo box on the Stompies' page.

I would imagine a list page built once per (select your favorite period of time) that would just be an "include", without processing to build per request.

Would it be difficult to code it/would it be less taxing to the server, to design this, so that there was a main page (of the registered users list function whateverer) that had the alphabet at the top of the page. Each letter of the alphabet would link to names that start with that letter (e.g. if I clicked D I'd get a page with DavidA, DavidB, DavidC, DavidE, DavidF, DavidG, DXMachina)

Then, on the registration form, we could link to the main page, and tell people to check, to make sure the names they're selecting aren't too close. We could provide an example that we already have a KristinT, so they shouldn't register as Kristen_T).

Just a thought.

If someone wants to send me the current list, I'll go ahead with Cindy's idea and host it off my wazooweb or wiki site. This is slam-dunk simple.

eta: it would look something like this.

We could provide an example that we already have a KristinT, so they shouldn't register as Kristen_T).

I'm okay with this, if you want use this example. However, it could be made stronger by pointing out that there was first a Kristen, too.

EDIT: Actually, I think it's covered well by Bon-Bon's post here: bon bon "Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer" Apr 6, 2004 2:59:51 pm PDT

That list of names idea has been updated, using actual names taken from some threadsucks. list.

The thing is automated now, so that a file of unordered names will be processed into the tables/pages.

Go you, Gus.

Gus is the script automatically capitalizing all the names it finds? Because you know how some people get when they're capitalized.

DX, yes. The sort order that pops out is non-intuitive, otherwise. I suppose I could fix it up at display time. I'd like to get a better sense that folks think it will be of some use, before fiddling with it much more, though.