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Sysadmin told to spend 20+ hours changing user names, for no reason

Naselus

"The proposed naming system cannot guarantee to produce unique names and unique names are an essential requirement."

The existing scheme doesn't either.

Unless the 'new' scheme is less than 3 letters per person, it's less likely to produce duplicates than the frankly idiotic 3-letter practice (which has only 18k possible combinations, and since most of those are unlikely to occur ever - just how likely is ZQP, for example? - it's likely to run into duplicates ridiculously quickly).

Scrap both and come up with a sane naming convention.

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