Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Tez" == Tez Kamihira <address@hidden> writes:

    Tez> I made a tiny work to get rid of this problem. Using this
    Tez> patch, tla makes some random ID just like "Anonyous
    Tez> <address@hidden>" where GGGG is so-called GUID or UUID.

    Tez> I don't know what kind of influences does it cause in the
    Tez> whole tla system. Is it harmful ? harmless ? or stupid idea ?

I think this is bad because that ID is silently used in logs.  People
will set the id and forget it, and then they may end up with an
archive full of GoodStuff[tm] with anonymized log messages.  I think
it's a good idea to have something that is not a real email address
possible, but it should be something that does identify that user.

I would suggest a UI of the form

tla my-id --generate-from-name Stephen Turnbull
          -> "Stephen Turnbull" <address@hidden>

"generated" is a literal.  There are some bizarrely named dot-coms
out there, GGGG.com might be mistaken for a real address!  (Not to
mention it used to be possible to have a kanji domain somehow, UTF-7,
maybe?  That would look random to most Americans.)

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