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Long User Names Should Include Spaces
Hi, and welcome to Tax Almanac, the free online research resource and community for tax professionals.
Before you post to any discussions, you should consider creating a different user name. You're exposing your e-mail address to spammers by using it as your user name - it gets shown on multiple pages on the boards. More importantly, long user names without any spaces really mess up the format of the discussion boards.
For an extreme example of the problems created by long user names, see page 41 of the tax forum. The long user name stretches out the "creator" and "last poster" columns to fit, and the "topic" column - which should be the widest - has to shrink to make up the difference. Click over to page 42, and you'll see a good example of how having spaces in a user name allows the name to wrap, rather than stretching the columns. (If you are reading this more than a day or two after Nov 21, those page numbers may not be exactly correct, since new posts push the old ones back.)
You can just start anew with a shorter user name (or a long one with strategic spaces every 6 to 10 characters, so it'll wrap within the column), and abandon this one.
Trillium 16:28, 21 November 2008 (CST)
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