Thread: Using nicknames on planet?
Hi, I asked planet team to change "Hubert Lubaczewski" into "depesz" on planet.postgresql.org, but was told that current policy doesn't allow it, but it can be discussed. So I'd like to discuss possibility to change the policy. One of the most important reasons is that I much prefer using "depesz" when it comes to anything technical. This makes the "brand" more recognizable - for example - google has 87k pages for "depesz", and only 6.4k for "hubert lubaczewski". Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at the very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc with author on planet. Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: depesz@depesz.com / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007
On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I > would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at the > very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc with > author on planet. +1 David
David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I > > would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at the > > very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc with > > author on planet. > > +1 Yea, I think people can be called whatever they like. We just had a similar discussion about a name attributed to a commit. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.comPG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive,Christ can be your backup. +
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:55 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > I asked planet team to change "Hubert Lubaczewski" into "depesz" on > planet.postgresql.org, but was told that current policy doesn't allow > it, but it can be discussed. So I'd like to discuss possibility to > change the policy. Given that planet.postgresql.org is being synced to www.postgresql.org, I am (still) against adding nicknames instead of real names. If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing nicknames. > Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I > would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at > the very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc > with author on planet. I don't care about IRC, as long as logs are not synced to our main website. IRC and Planet are not the same thing. (and .../me uses realname in IRC.) -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
Devrim G�ND�Z wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:55 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > I asked planet team to change "Hubert Lubaczewski" into "depesz" on > > planet.postgresql.org, but was told that current policy doesn't allow > > it, but it can be discussed. So I'd like to discuss possibility to > > change the policy. > > Given that planet.postgresql.org is being synced to www.postgresql.org, > I am (still) against adding nicknames instead of real names. > > If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what > nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing > nicknames. True, but real names could sound abusing too. Can't we just reject silly user names at our discretion. I doubt it would ever happen, at least in our group. > > Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I > > would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at > > the very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc > > with author on planet. > > I don't care about IRC, as long as logs are not synced to our main > website. IRC and Planet are not the same thing. > > (and .../me uses realname in IRC.) As do I, and frankly can't figure out the purpose of unrecognizable nicknames, but then again, I don't understand key signing parties either. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.comPG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive,Christ can be your backup. +
2010/2/24 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>: > As do I, and frankly can't figure out the purpose of unrecognizable > nicknames, Some people have far more common names than you guys, and a nickname is more memorable than dpage3729. > but then again, I don't understand key signing parties > either. Yeah, but everyone knows who you are. The rest of us need validation and verification :-p -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com PG East Conference: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do
Dave Page wrote: > > but then again, I don't understand key signing parties > > either. I have to admit it always makes me think of a secret decoder ring: http://s1.hubimg.com/u/196436_f260.jpg > Yeah, but everyone knows who you are. The rest of us need validation > and verification :-p The larger group are people who want to pretend they don't know me, and there is no easy fix for that. ;-) -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.comPG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive,Christ can be your backup. +
On Feb 24, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> (and .../me uses realname in IRC.) > > As do I, and frankly can't figure out the purpose of unrecognizable > nicknames, but then again, I don't understand key signing parties > either. Free beer? David
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message >> If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what >> nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing >> nicknames. > > True, but real names could sound abusing too. Huh? -1 for allowing nicknames. This isn't IRC, and "Hubert Lubaczewski" has the same first Google hit as "depesz" (and is a very unique name) > I don't understand key signing parties either. Bruce, we really need to have lunch soon. :) -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201002241232 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAkuFYv0ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsizkwCfVyccb31ufTTEY5MZeIOlxjaB cpgAoNh1wbQl/bc0lYmCSuP6HCmNLNX1 =lQuh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:34 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > -1 for allowing nicknames. This isn't IRC, and "Hubert Lubaczewski" > has the same first Google hit as "depesz" (and is a very unique name) > > > I don't understand key signing parties either. > > Bruce, we really need to have lunch soon. :) +1 on nicknames. .Org is not a corporation, its a community. In this community I am known as three things: JD, Linuxpoet, Jackass Usually I only hear the first two but still. Let's lighten up people. If Hubert wants to be Depesz let him. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir.
On 2/24/10 9:09 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > David E. Wheeler wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: >> >>> Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I >>> would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at the >>> very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc with >>> author on planet. >> +1 > > Yea, I think people can be called whatever they like. We just had a > similar discussion about a name attributed to a commit. > ... although we're keeping a record of the real name somewhere, no? --Josh Berkus
Josh Berkus wrote: > On 2/24/10 9:09 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > David E. Wheeler wrote: > >> On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > >> > >>> Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full names - I > >>> would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames on planet - at the > >>> very least to allow newcomers easily associate person from irc with > >>> author on planet. > >> +1 > > > > Yea, I think people can be called whatever they like. We just had a > > similar discussion about a name attributed to a commit. > > > ... although we're keeping a record of the real name somewhere, no? For commits, no. We have their email addresses but do not require a full name. If we did, the name could easily be forged anyway. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.comPG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive,Christ can be your backup. +
Dave Page wrote: > Some people have far more common names than you guys, and a nickname > is more memorable than dpage3729. > When I sign up for sites that use some variation on your first and last name to assign usernames, I regularly discover the first one it suggests is available for me has a three digit number at the end. I have a standard four-digit number I use in these cases, and I've even seen a collision on that before. I used to live in a small town with only about 30K residents, and once when I forgot my ID card I discovered that just my gym had 3 Greg Smiths listed as members when they tried to confirm my membership by name. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support greg@2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us
Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> I used to live in a small town with only about 30K residents, and once
> when I forgot my ID card I discovered that just my gym had 3 Greg Smiths
> listed as members when they tried to confirm my membership by name.
Yeah, there are four or five Tom Lanes in the Pittsburgh phonebook,
but at least I'm not a Smith ;-)
I think we should have a policy that prevents using misleading or
unknown nicks on planet, but in this case depesz is arguably better
known by that name than as his "real" name. I cannot see any reason
not to let his planet blog be signed that way.
regards, tom lane
Hi! On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> I used to live in a small town with only about 30K residents, and once >> when I forgot my ID card I discovered that just my gym had 3 Greg Smiths >> listed as members when they tried to confirm my membership by name. > > Yeah, there are four or five Tom Lanes in the Pittsburgh phonebook, > but at least I'm not a Smith ;-) > > I think we should have a policy that prevents using misleading or > unknown nicks on planet, but in this case depesz is arguably better > known by that name than as his "real" name. I cannot see any reason > not to let his planet blog be signed that way. I encourage people to use their real names, as it establishes credibility (you stand behind your posts with your reputation!) and helps expand the community around Postgres. The goal of Planet isn't branding - it's about making knowledge about Postgres more easily accessible to developers and users of Postgres (and the rest of the software world!), not necessarily to build business associates or strengthen ties in a secret club. We're an international group, but I like to think of us as software neighbors. How you would introduce yourself to your neighbors? Most of us would use our real names. That said, there are certainly people who are better known by nicknames than by real name. I support providing the ability for people to have a nickname displayed, but strongly recommend people still reference their real names. -selena -- http://chesnok.com/daily - me http://endpoint.com - work
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:55 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > One of the most important reasons is that I much prefer using "depesz" > when it comes to anything technical. This makes the "brand" more > recognizable - for example - google has 87k pages for "depesz", and > only > 6.4k for "hubert lubaczewski". This reminded me something that happened around 2007: I was asked for a point of contact at Poland. I told them to find Depesz, but it returned null result for them. Then I remembered your name (and IIRC they worked with you) :) -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
Selena Deckelmann wrote: > We're an international group, but I like to think of us as software > neighbors. How you would introduce yourself to your neighbors? Most of > us would use our real names. > > That said, there are certainly people who are better known by > nicknames than by real name. > > I support providing the ability for people to have a nickname > displayed, but strongly recommend people still reference their real > names. On another note, some blog pages make it very hard to identify the name of the person who created the blog --- not sure why someone would want that. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.comPG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive,Christ can be your backup. +
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 19:10 +0000, Selena Deckelmann wrote: > Hi! > We're an international group, but I like to think of us as software > neighbors. How you would introduce yourself to your neighbors? Most of > us would use our real names. I introduce myself as jd AND linuxpoet in every talk I give. Everyone in this community knows me as either jd or linuxpoet. I think you would be hard pressed to find someone that "knows me" as Joshua D. Drake, except that is how I sign my email. > > That said, there are certainly people who are better known by > nicknames than by real name. > > I support providing the ability for people to have a nickname > displayed, but strongly recommend people still reference their real > names. +1, Let people identify themselves how they want to identify themselves. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir.
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message > > >>> If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what >>> nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing >>> nicknames. >> True, but real names could sound abusing too. > > Huh? > > -1 for allowing nicknames. This isn't IRC, and "Hubert Lubaczewski" > has the same first Google hit as "depesz" (and is a very unique name) well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or "Stefan Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? Stefan
2010/2/24 Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 19:10 +0000, Selena Deckelmann wrote: >> Hi! > >> We're an international group, but I like to think of us as software >> neighbors. How you would introduce yourself to your neighbors? Most of >> us would use our real names. > > I introduce myself as jd AND linuxpoet in every talk I give. Everyone in > this community knows me as either jd or linuxpoet. I think you would be > hard pressed to find someone that "knows me" as Joshua D. Drake, except > that is how I sign my email. Yes, the insiders do. Want to guess if the majority of our planet readers are insiders or not? (hint: i wish we had that many insiders) -- Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
2010/2/24 Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>: > Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: RIPEMD160 >> NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message >> >> >>>> If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what >>>> nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing >>>> nicknames. >>> >>> True, but real names could sound abusing too. >> >> Huh? >> >> -1 for allowing nicknames. This isn't IRC, and "Hubert Lubaczewski" has the same first Google hit as "depesz" (and isa very unique name) > > well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)"or "Stefan Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? I'll +1 this version (though I think Hubert usually says "Hubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski". But I'm happy to leave the exact spelling entirely up to the author). That will at least convey the most amount of information... -- Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their > profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or "Stefan > Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? +100 on this, as long as the name is written first. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 21:55 +0200, Devrim GÃNDÃZ wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > > well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their > > profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or "Stefan > > Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? > > +100 on this, as long as the name is written first. Yeah I can get behind this too. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir.
On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their >>> profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or "Stefan >>> Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? >> >> +100 on this, as long as the name is written first. > > Yeah I can get behind this too. Compromise++ David
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:34 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > -1 for allowing nicknames. This isn't IRC, and "Hubert Lubaczewski" > has the same first Google hit as "depesz" (and is a very unique name) > > > I don't understand key signing parties either. > > Bruce, we really need to have lunch soon. :) +1 on nicknames. .Org is not a corporation, its a community. In this community I am known as three things: JD, Linuxpoet, Jackass Usually I only hear the first two but still. Let's lighten up people. If Hubert wants to be Depesz let him. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:19:47PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Devrim G�ND�Z wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:55 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > I asked planet team to change "Hubert Lubaczewski" into "depesz" on > > > planet.postgresql.org, but was told that current policy doesn't allow > > > it, but it can be discussed. So I'd like to discuss possibility to > > > change the policy. > > > > Given that planet.postgresql.org is being synced to www.postgresql.org, > > I am (still) against adding nicknames instead of real names. > > > > If we allow nicknames, then we will need to figure out a policy of what > > nicknames should be used or not, to prevent people using abusing > > nicknames. > > True, but real names could sound abusing too. Can't we just reject > silly user names at our discretion. I doubt it would ever happen, at > least in our group. I don't see any point in allowing nicknames at all. > > > Given the fact that on irc it is not very common to use full > > > names - I would say that it makes sense to allow same nicknames > > > on planet - at the very least to allow newcomers easily > > > associate person from irc with author on planet. > > > > I don't care about IRC, as long as logs are not synced to our main > > website. IRC and Planet are not the same thing. > > > > (and .../me uses realname in IRC.) > > As do I, and frankly can't figure out the purpose of unrecognizable > nicknames, but then again, I don't understand key signing parties > either. My understanding of them comes under the heading of security theater, in that they protect against a pretty uncommon threat and the step taken to mitigate this threat is about on the level of seizing water bottles in airports. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:02:21PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 21:55 +0200, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > > > well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their > > > profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or "Stefan > > > Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? > > > > +100 on this, as long as the name is written first. > > Yeah I can get behind this too. > > Joshua D. Drake For PostgreSQL Weekly News, I use First (nick) Last. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 19:10 +0000, Selena Deckelmann wrote: > Hi! > We're an international group, but I like to think of us as software > neighbors. How you would introduce yourself to your neighbors? Most of > us would use our real names. I introduce myself as jd AND linuxpoet in every talk I give. Everyone in this community knows me as either jd or linuxpoet. I think you would be hard pressed to find someone that "knows me" as Joshua D. Drake, except that is how I sign my email. > > That said, there are certainly people who are better known by > nicknames than by real name. > > I support providing the ability for people to have a nickname > displayed, but strongly recommend people still reference their real > names. +1, Let people identify themselves how they want to identify themselves. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir.
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 21:55 +0200, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:43 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > > well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their > > profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or "Stefan > > Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? > > +100 on this, as long as the name is written first. Yeah I can get behind this too. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir.
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:47:56 +0100 Magnus Hagander wrote: > 2010/2/24 Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>: > > > > well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their > > profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or > > "Stefan Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? > > I'll +1 this version (though I think Hubert usually says "Hubert > 'depesz' Lubaczewski". But I'm happy to leave the exact spelling > entirely up to the author). +1 for this, this was in my mind when i spotted this thread, but Stefan/Mastermind already posted this idea. Personally i mostly use this combination. It's my "From" in my emails and i don't hide behind "ads" (which would be really easy). Bye -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:23, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:47:56 +0100 Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> 2010/2/24 Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>: >> > >> > well - why no allow people to optionally add a nickname to their >> > profile and display lit like "Hubert Lubaczewski (depesz)" or >> > "Stefan Kaltenbrunner (mastermind)" or similiar? >> >> I'll +1 this version (though I think Hubert usually says "Hubert >> 'depesz' Lubaczewski". But I'm happy to leave the exact spelling >> entirely up to the author). > > +1 for this, this was in my mind when i spotted this thread, but > Stefan/Mastermind already posted this idea. > > Personally i mostly use this combination. It's my "From" in my emails > and i don't hide behind "ads" (which would be really easy). From what I can tell we've basically reached a consensus on the compromise that we should allwo the name+nickname combination, but not nicknames alone. I'll add this to the policy, since the previous policy wasn't actually listed there :-) -- Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 >> As do I, and frankly can't figure out the purpose of unrecognizable >> nicknames, but then again, I don't understand key signing parties >> either. > > My understanding of them comes under the heading of security theater, > in that they protect against a pretty uncommon threat and the step > taken to mitigate this threat is about on the level of seizing water > bottles in airports. Actually, key signing parties are very useful. Being able to securely communicate with other people, with a certain level of guarantee that you are speaking with the correct person, is important, but there is another advantage: digital signatures. People who have met me and signed my key, for example, can be really damn sure that the Postgres tarballs they downloaded are the same ones I encountered at a certain point in time, and that I created the exact checksums listed, i.e. http://www.gtsm.com/postgresql-20100518.gpg.txt Personally, I'm a lot more worried about someone slipping a bogus tarball into random mirror X than about encrypting email to the wrong person, but it's nice to know that PGP is able to counter both those problems. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201005180104 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAkvyIKoACgkQvJuQZxSWSsjHugCghVFYUXF6k25UUSYEev7OuIHV uWoAnjy3Du8cVXssyRqhu/o7ny/2s5aK =+alC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----