On Apr 4, 8:04am, Mike Jones wrote:
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> In fact, from a human factors point of view, it seems likely that
> "non-obvious" (a better term might be "user hostile") mail names are
> *more* likely to cause misdelivery of mail, because it is less
> obvious if one has mistyped an address.
You seem to be assuming that "non-obvious" ids are independent of each other
and that as a result it might be easy to mistype one id into another. What
about a scheme where it is *impossible* to get from one id to another without
making at least 3 mistypes? At least what would happen then is that you will
get the message returned with "no such user".
Of course, if your mail system allows you to *validate* local users before
you send the mail as well then most of the mis-sendings disappear too.
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