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818.0. "Admin: PRINCIPAL name convention" by SMURF::FILTER (Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck) Fri Jun 24 1994 16:49

Date Of Receipt: 	24-JUN-1994 11:28:07.24
From: 	FLAMBE::jmf "Joshua M. Friedman OSF/UNIX SDE  24-Jun-1994 1126"
To: 	odehelp@DEC:.zko.flambe, ues_tech@DEC:.zko.flambe,
	alias-admin@DEC:.zko.flambe
CC: 	reng@DEC:.zko.flambe, admin@DEC:.zko.flambe
Subj: 	Admin: PRINCIPAL name convention

Please read if you ever enter new Principal names...

Recently, some inappropriate PRINCIPAL names have been created, one
which caused actual submit problems and two others which were only
convention problems, but all of these caused a fair amount of cleanup
and repair work when the initial principal name was changed to a new one.

I think that probably there was never any communication to newer
members of UES about what is and isn't appropriate for a principal name.

Here are our conventions:

	Valid PRINCIPAL names are full first and last names with
	underscores; no hyphens or apostrophes. An additional
	underscore can be used in place of a hyphen.

Here are some examples (taken from real life):

Patrick_O'Rourke - broken	   Patrick_ORourke - good
Chung-Lin_Hsu - broken		   ChungLin_Hsu or Chung_Lin_Hsu - good
S_Adams - inappropriate            Stephanie_Adams - good
Rich_Page - ok but informal	   Richard_Page - better

Thanks very much.
				-josh