Re: Fwd: [precis] spaces at end of nickname

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:10:19 +0100
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On Nov 1, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Ben Campbell wrote:

> +1. Should we generalize this to leading and trailing white space?
> 

I think so. Spaces are not perceived depending on where you align the text in a user interface.

> On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Subject: [precis] spaces at end of nickname
>> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:41:55 -0600
>> From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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>> In the context of groupchat rooms, most applications show a room
>> roster of the participants. One way to spoof nicknames is to simply
>> add one or more space characters at the end, because the spaces don't
>> show up in the interface (thus "stpeter", "stpeter " with one space at
>> the end, and "stpeter  " with two spaces at the end would all appear
>> to be the same person). This seems like an obvious hole that we can
>> plug by disallowing trailing (and perhaps leading) spaces in
>> nicknames. I'll forward this message to the SIMPLE WG and XMPP WG for
>> their feedback, and also raise this issue during the PRECIS WG session
>> next week.
>> 
>> Peter
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