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On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:53:47AM -0700, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Tom Martin posted <20050506222301.GA4758@×××××××.net>, excerpted below, |
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> on Fri, 06 May 2005 23:23:01 +0100: |
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> > I have the pleasure to tell you all about another new developer. His |
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> > name is Duncan Coutts, and he lives in Oxford |
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> > Please show Duncan a warm welcome. |
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> Hi, dcoutts. Another Duncan! =8^) |
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> I'm not a Gentoo dev (yet?), but I /am/ a regular on the list, and use |
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> "Duncan" both here and on bugzilla as 1i5t5.duncan@×××.net, tho the 1i5t5 |
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> can change when the address starts getting to much spam, and of course |
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> the domain can change. A namespace clash agreement might be beneficial. <g> |
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> If you have no strong preference, dcoutts would maintain the distinction. |
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> I have a preference, but you are the developer while I'm just a user, so |
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> if you prefer "Duncan", I'll look for something else. (FWIW, Duncan is my |
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> surname, but "John" is my first name, and I always put it this way.. |
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> There's always too many johns around -- unless you need one. <g> Thus, |
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> I've used Duncan both in meatspace and on the net for a number of years. |
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> Surprisingly, perhaps, just plain "Duncan" has clashed less than John |
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> Duncan or jduncan did. Maybe I should now be "Freedomware Duncan"? <g>) |
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Hehe, the convention is just to use your full name :) No possible |
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confusion. |
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Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti |
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AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim |
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Gentoo Linux |