| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, depesz(at)depesz(dot)com, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Using nicknames on planet? |
| Date: | 2010-02-24 18:19:02 |
| Message-ID: | 23952.1267035542@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)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
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