Re: length of the login id

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>]

At 7:38 AM -0700 2001/2/2, Yves Dorfsman wrote:

>  8 char ids seems to make more sense, but the only valid reason I can come
>  up with is that it is easier to create something meaningfull out of 8
>  chars than 3... or it could just be habit (I originally thought 3
>  alphanumeric would be very limited in the number of possible ids, but 36^3
>  = 46656, more than enough !!).

	Right, but how are those three generated?  Is it your initials? 
If so, you have a much, much higher probability of collisions, 
because Brian Kizer can have the same middle name as Brad Knowles -- 
Remember the birthday paradox.

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