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On: 2006 / 06 / 20 Viewed: 62416 times

Arrrrrgh. There’s two thing I hate when registering with a new website or service.

First one is when they ask for logins longer than 3 letters. When I’d like to keep things simple and use the same ‘Ozh’ as a login across a thousand websites, I end up registering (and forgetting) gazillions of ozhy, ozhozh, ozh1, ozhozhozh, MrOzh and such variations.

But what infuriates me even more is when I try a new service, 3 letters are ok with them… and some jackass has already signed-up using my name. Because, well, yes, it’s MY name, you see. Die, jackass.

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    Yann France »
    thought, on 10/Jul/06 at 2:21 pm # :

    You seemed to be in mood for some alias/domain locking lately. Hurry up, ozh.vox.com is still available, if you are interested ;)

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    Rosano Coutinho Canada »
    said, on 27/Jul/06 at 6:38 am # :

    You should use a longer name that is probably not taken like userozh or even uozh. Luck I haven’t had your problem yet.

    @Yann
    Vox in invite only last time I checked. If you got an invite please let me know via my site’s contact form:)

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