On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > It was a joke, implying that my mother uses the same "truly unique" > handle as you. > > With over 7 billion people on the planet, and no upper limit on the > number of handles anyone can take, together with the lack of any > definitive central registry, I wouldn't put money on any one of them > being unique. > > It wouldn't surprise me to learn that now you have claimed Rosuav is > unique to you, some wag (or wags) have rushed out and registered it on > whatever Internet forums you haven't already done so on and are already > posting "I am [insert childish insult of your choice]" in your name.
Ah. Sure. I get that. But "Rosuav" is, as far as I know, unique to me in the entire English language. (I checked once, and there's something in Italian that uses the same letter combination. Not a person, though.) Yes, it's entirely possible that someone will deliberately try to sully my name like that, but I can't imagine that anyone would accidentally hit on it as an internet username, given that it hasn't happened yet. And sure, someone might be using it offline that I'm unaware of. I'm prepared to chance that. :) So yeah, I probably shouldn't have said "truly unique", but "effectively unique". Pretty much anything you find on google.com or duckduckgo.com with the name "rosuav" has come from me, or is referencing me (and this would include the wag/s you describe, though I've not seen that happen, and I've been using and claiming this name for a decade or so - and that's only counting on the internet). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
