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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 180.72-0.1%Nov 3 9:30 AM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5581)12/31/2002 4:04:44 PM
From: John Biddle  Read Replies (1) of 12229
 
I agree that people would prefer names, but argue that this is only true because they don't understand all that's involved. (notice how I got around say you don't understand<g>).

One may only know one John Smith in the US, or in Florida or even in Tampa, but the deliverer of the message, or the establisher of the connection has to be able to differentiate them. You can have technology which hides this extra complexity from you most of the time, using a nickname or short name in your PDA to refer to the real or long name, but that name has to be there to get the job done.

You acknowledge this by talking about adding on a letter or three to the end of one's name, but how does that simplify things if I have to become johnhbiddleafwqo@tampabay.rr.com?
This is easy to remember?

As an aside, did you know that even phone numbers used to have names in them. PA1-4313 was my phone number as a kid, and the PA stood for Parlin, the town I grew up in. In MU3-1234, the MU stood for Murray Hill, another town. There were literally thousands of these, but as the number of users went up the ability of the phone companies to make sensible numbers went down and pure numbers have ruled ever since.
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