[IxDA Discuss] email address as username

[jackbellis]

Christina,
Can I ask which if any of these 5 items has merit for you personally as a
reason to dislike emails, either as a site owner or user?

I'll state in advance that I think that these 5 are excuses, rather than
good reasons but I don't want to make a shotgun response to them. (It is a
separate, and of course quite valid, matter if site owners use emails to
subsequently spam registrants.) I suspect that there's a hidden agenda here
related to anonymity, but first things first.

-Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christina Wodtke" <cwodtke at eleganthack.com>
Cc: <discuss at ixda.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] email address as username


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>   5 reasons not to use email for login
>
> http://blog.publicsquarehq.com/view/5_reasons_not_t
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> Sunandini Basu wrote:
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> > Hi
> > I'm reviewing a web based blogging service. Currently on sign up, the
> > user has to enter a username, a display name and an email address. I
> > suggest that that username be replaced by the user's email address.
> > (from any email, say yahoo, gmail, hotmail, rediffmail, etc)
> > How would this impact the security of the product? Is there any
> > drawback in using an email address as the username?
> > Cheers,
> > S
> >
> >
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