Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/22/16:18:03
On 20 Oct 1997 06:13:50 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Paul Derbyshire
(ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) wrote:
: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E1bio_Diales_da_Rocha?=" (crismafabio AT mail DOT telepac DOT pt)
: writes:
: [stuff]
: Wow. And I thought my freenet userid was cryptic and non-human-readable.
: How the devil do you remember that thing, let alone type it all in and the
: password in the 60 second login time limit? (If it were me? I'd assign it
: to a keyboard macro or put it on the clipboard. Or change to a more user
: friendly ISP.)
Huh? The userid isn't cryptic. I think you're referring to the real name.
The reason it seems cryptic is because it contains accents or other
special characters which your terminal/newsreader doesn't understand; so
it just starts it with a tag saying it's encoded using ISO-8859-1.
Besides, chfn doesn't have a time limit (that I'm aware of...).
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Regards,
george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk
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