Your user name serves as your public identity badge for the BSCW server. Thus, the creativity and imagination often applied in choosing a 'user id' on a local Unix system is not appropriate here. We recommend that you use your last name as your user name.

This will enable the other users of the BSCW server to find you easily and to identify you successfully -- and this is exactly the purpose of having a user name.

The BSCW server requires user names to be unique. If your last name is already being used as a user name on the server, BSCW will report an error in the registration procedure. In this case we suggest that you

• append the initials of your first names or other additions to the end of your last name [i. e. Last-Name_XY].

BSCW presents the entries in address books in alphabetical order. Why should your partners have to remember that you, Alan Miller, are listed in her or his address book not under 'Miller', but under 'am'?;

• enter your full name, your nickname (if you like it and if it is well known) and the organization you are affiliated with in your personal info page (see section 2.4).

Note:

In the current version of BSCW, you cannot change your user name.