On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> Standard university problem. I suspect that due to the allocation
> methods used at York (initials + digits, with no recycling of names,
> ever) that some accounts may well be up to 4 digits now, and possibly
> even more...
We've been allocating CRSIDs in a similar way for over 30 years (e.g.
ph10!) but only in the last 10 or so have we been allocating them to
everyone. Apart from the early 1990s anomaly of 7 character IDs along the
lines of fanf100 (or worse, ph10000) the largest number we have is on a
two-initial combination which is nearly up to 650, counting from 200 to
avoid confusion with O and L.
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Tony Finch <dot@???>
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