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--TybLhxa8M7aNoW+V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:41:43AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:33:24 +0100, Rhesa Rozendaal <rhesa@xxxxxx.xx> wro= te: > > I just moved to Norway. My address has no street name, and no house > > number (it's a small village, so the postman knows me personally). Try > > ordering anything off the web, it can't be done. >=20 > I can only vaguely imagine the pain that people must go through who > have only one name, none of this "family name" business, when filling > out forms that require everyone to have a given name and a family > name. What do they put? "Suharto Suharto"? Yup. Try signing up for a conference as "Abigail", it's amazing how many sign up forms won't accept that. Recently, I used a very long rant about that as my last name. The form accepted it - but the software behind it truncated it to 20 characters. Hate, hate, hate. Abigail --TybLhxa8M7aNoW+V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCKBv5BOh7Ggo6rasRAhzSAJ9wxnmD7E4qU2tfS2jDEdySLGJMTwCgivTI Z+RyR7JM5+Ad6rvax4UZcWc= =Vo+5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TybLhxa8M7aNoW+V--There's stuff above here
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