Can I change or delete a username? (OldForumCopy)

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By: nobody ( Nobody/Anonymous )
Can I change or delete a username?
2003-04-07 20:00

Is it possible to completely delete a username from the system?


By: nobody ( Nobody/Anonymous )
RE: Can I change or delete a username?
2003-04-23 15:39

Is it technically possible?
- yes, the owners and maintainers of the spamgourmet system can do that. Users can't. And, the owners and mainainder just wouldn't, O.K.?

Why can't I, a mere user, do it?
- a moments reflection should give you the answer.
<pause>
<a moment passes>
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Aha! If I deleted my username, which is receiving lots of spam (yum yum), then if somebody else chose to use that username, they would get all the spam being sent to me (no problem), but also any mails sent to that me when the sender didn't know that I had changed or deleted my username. Not good. Could be a privacy issue. So once created, usernames should *never* be deleted.

Spot on! Give that man a cigar.

Next!

[Kyle]

That is a good reason indeed not to delete the complete accounting information; but what about the privacy issue concerning the own saved and confirmed email-address? What about a feature like a locked username as a result of deletion? Otherwise confirmed addresses will remain.

[SysKoll]

If you're worried about the confidentiality of a forwarding address, just create an account on mail.com and replace your forwarding address with this. After a month of inactivity, most free accounts will just eat all the emails sent to them.

SO you now have an inactive SG user with a useless forwarding address. Which is what you wanted.

[josh]

another option is to set the forwarding address to be blank and save. This has the effect of disabling the account, since all email to it will be "eaten"