In message , at 15:34:28 on Wed, 6 Jan 2021,
Certes remarked:
On 06/01/2021 10:00, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:31:21 on Wed, 6 Jan
2021, Sam Wilson remarked:

On of the UoEd’s schools used to use login names based on initials
but they
were at least 3 characters long.Â* People without a middle name got
an “x�
inserted, so S.... W.... (not me) was “sxwâ€�.Â*Â* It looked odd
when you first
saw one - “oh, I didn’t know Steve’s middle name was Xavier...�

There's still some cachet in having an ongoing login with "1" as a
suffix in Cambridge. Maybe other places too.

Especially one of the original four-character logins (RXP1, etc.)

Yes, those are the ones I meant. Have they got a new scheme now, rather
than issuing RXP1234?
--
Roland Perry