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From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas)
Subject: Re: user id's longer then 8 characters
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Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 14:01:42 GMT
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In article <4mngso$3ju@adcmail.adc.com>, mad@adc.com (Michael A. Dorin) wrote:
>Another silly question:
>
>How do I make a webmaster account on my system?  (As webmaster contains
>more than 8 characters)
>

The easiest way is to just use a shorter ID and an email alias (webmaster) 
that points to it.



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