Length of User names

[Warner Losh]

In article <1991May31.173152.791 at mlb.semi.harris.com>
dcb at dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart) writes:
>At Harris, we finally decided to use the VMS standard of first
>initial last name (truncated to 8 characters).  Kind of a  pain :-( 

This is especially a *PAIN* when the system administrator sees "M.
Warner Losh" and gives you the login "mlosh" and people send mail to
"wlosh" since your name is Warner.  Fee and a pox be on all ye that
try to standarize login names.

Warner
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