Ah, yes, nannyware and the evils thereof :-(
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 6:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Userid schemes On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:37:16 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >So I'd be SMTHPH? Ick. I know, I'd get used to it, but. > I had a manager who told a tale of having been one of four Thomas J. Murrays employed at Kodak. They learned to adapt by forwarding each others' emails by topic relevance. Remember when magazine mailing labels contained a hash of the addressees' full name? I had a co-worker who had majored in English but switched to IT for economic reasons. His first job assignment was to write a filter to eliminate taboo combinations. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
