[opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

[Daniel Smith]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:37 PM, David M Chess <chess at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Daniel Smith <javajoint at gmail.com>:
>
>>I still have not heard a definitive answer as to what gets logged in
>>IM and Chat.
>>Forget the "display" for a moment.  What do you want to have logged as
>>"Michael Schlenker"
>>that you did not write?
>
> Not to be a wet blanket, but anyone can sign their email "David Chess" right
> now, or create "David_Chess at foo.nom", or even (if their last name is "Chess"
> anyway) *name their children* "David Chess", and there's not a thing I can
> do about it.
>

Yep, I think we all know this.  I sent my first email in 1981...

The focus here is identity within SL.  We work hard to craft our AVs
and our reputations.  If you want to use your analogy, you would be
the only David_Chess at SomeSLUser.com.  Now, do you want someone
impersonating that?  Because that's the sort of thing I am getting at
with the displaynames functionality.

cheers,

Daniel


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