I wanted to register a Slack team, but the most obvious team name for my purpose is already taken and I can not imagine who in their right mind, apart from me, would want to use that name.   So I thought that perhaps this is one of those accounts that someone registered but did not end up using and I was hoping to contact the team administrator and ask whether they would be willing to give up the slack domain.  Unfortunately when I go to  [1] it says      This team's administrator has not enabled email signups.   So my question is: is there a way to contact the administrator and is there any precedent of giving up team domains?    [1] not the actual team name
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I'd like to check who owns (or at least some kind of public profile page) some workspace based on its subdomain (e.g. xyz.slack.com).  Is it possible?
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The Commitment form on Area 51 requires your full name to be provided. Is this publicly viewable? Why not just use the existing usernames?
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Maybe I'm just missing something obvious, but what's up with this syntax? Is it because people sign up with e-mail addresses and use those for logging in, but don't bother giving themselves custom names (or completing their profile in any way)?
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We have a few cases of chat accounts remaining without valid parent account:  and  for example. What should mods do when that happens:  delete the chat account notify the SE team so they can reattach or clean it up leave it as is: it's a normal situation
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A while ago I tried to login to stack overflow, but I couldn't remember what email address I used when I registered. Now I've figured it out but the email address is dead, the domain no longer exists. Would it be possible to merge the accounts  and  ?
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This seems like it would be a simple question, but my Google skills have failed me.  When logged into a domain (as a domain user without any admin rights), how can I determine what groups my user account belongs to?
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I'm interested in finding out what people's experiences with standard usernames is. I've always been in places that used {firstInitial}{lastname} (sometimes with a length-limit). Now I've users that want {firstname}.{lastname} - and now it comes up that the period may cause problems.  Specifically:   What is the best username length limit to use to maintain compatibility across all uses? What characters should be avoided?   UPDATE: The reason I didn't mention specifics is that I wanted to be general enough to handle anything that might come up in the future. However, that may be too general of a requirement (anything can happen, right?).  This is our environment: Ubuntu Server Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and up, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server (with Active Directory in Windows 2000 Native Mode), Zimbra 7.x for mail, and OpenLDAP in the near future.  UPDATE: I should mention (for completeness) that I saw  (though it didn't answer my asked question) and also this , both of which were very informative.
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I am trying to make it to where points for teams are shown in the scoreboard but I can only manage to get player names on there, what command do I use? On 1.16
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I lead a team of 600 people in over 70 countries.  I often would like their input on one of my ideas and I don't want to use a survey because they tend to limit creativity by requiring a choice among predetermined answers.  Let's take a simple example.  I want to get the European team together next year.  I want the team to select the location of the meeting.  Could I use The Workplace exchange to ask the following question "Where should we meet in Europe next year?" and then invite my 100 team members to submit cities and/or vote on cities already submitted?  This doesn't seem to be in the spirit of Stack Exchange (I've only discovered this today), and I don't want to break etiquette.  If I can't use Stack Exchange for this purpose, is there another site out there that would allow people to submit ideas and/or vote on ideas submitted?
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I just saw a user named: .yahoo.co.jpaqwsykcj3aulh3h1k0cy6nzs3isj  Could new users be named according to their user-number, or something other than "Unknown"? Perhaps User1234567 instead? It would be less awkward to address them in answers and comments.   Additionally, I often times have to check profiles to make sure users aren't abusing the system, since I find many of the same questions from "unknown (google)" from time to time. That, or I'll mistakenly think I've helped the user on a similar issue in the past, and assume the user has knowledge that he or she does not have.
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I am considering registering a domain name in nameoverflow.com format.  Would doing so violate the trademark of /Stack Overflow Internet Services?  I ask because "overflow" can be a generic word.  I will not use Stack Overflow-like design on my domain, nor will my site be a Stack Exchange site.
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There's this proposal for a new S.E. site which is about to enter the beta phase. It reads  This proposal is in: Commitment A successful site needs people to commit to use it. This proposal is 100% complete. Committed users will be invited to the private beta soon.  I'd like to participate in the beta but I don't want to commit (due to a full name being required). Will I be unable to participate in the beta if I don't commit?
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I have a friend who purchased a domain name recently that he found out (after buying it) is apparently blocked by many corporate firewalls or proxies b/c it's been tagged as porn by the blacklist db they're using.    Are there any common agencies he can appeal to in order to get the domain name off the black lists?  It's not just one corporation, either, he's looking at marketing a subscription-based service to a certain industry, so any contacting a particular firewall/proxy admin and have them manually update the blacklist won't scale well.  Thanks in advance. Paul
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I understand that domain name registrars, for each domain they manage, register the authoritative name servers for that domain with its top-level root name server.  My question is: how do they do this? Is there a special protocol they use? How do top-level root name servers authenticate queries from registrars to change authoritative name servers for a given domain? Is that even public knowledge?  For example, say you own example.com. You want to change the authoritative name servers for it. You give your registrar the addresses of the new name servers. So far, so good. They, in turn, echo that change with the top-level root name server (the one responsible for .com). What protocol is used for the query from your registrar? How does that root name server authenticate it? How does it know it's legit?  Migrated from SuperUser (
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Once in a while you wish to address a comment to someone in particular, so you type @ and then you pause ... because the username is  or .  Short of using copy-paste to get their username right (which is even more cumbersome on a mobile device), is there another way around this? In a few cases I've noticed that the system will attempt to "promote" a comment to a reply, but I'm not sure if that's very reliable.  Should user names at least start with a normal letter?  Update  The auto-complete feature seems to normalize Zalgo'ish usernames, so typing the letter L will trigger the suggestions as expected; this is of course knowing that the name actually spells "lawrence", which may not always be obvious.  Knowing the way of the symbol ninja would surely help to type Ω using only the elbows as well, but not everyone is blessed with the same keyboard layout.  Suggestion  It would be nice to have a reply feature like this:        When ↳ reply is clicked, it will automatically populate the comment box with @username pre-filled in.   Additional notes  To clarify, I'm not suggesting to put the "reply" on all comments, as proposed , because in most cases the owner of a post is already notified of a new comment; this would strictly be to effect cross-commenter communication.
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So I have several servers all set up to send and receive mails from multiple domains, this all works perfectly fine.  However a few people have complained that within the mail headers you still see the name of the server being used, we'll call it "mail1.example.com". They can send and receive mail fine, it's showing their email addresses, using the right DKIM reports etc but they don't like having to have SPF records within their DNS specifically for my server or the headers.  Is it possible in any way with Postfix to "virtualise" the usage of "myhostname" so that it can pic/choose which server name to use?
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What is the reasoning behind the design decision to allow users to create a display name which matches another existing users exactly?    This is opposed to the common practice of enforcing unique user names, and I'd really like to learn something.