> One of the problems still to be solved is the instability of email
> addresses.  If someone has your tune and 10 years from now wants to
> contact you about it, will the email address work?  Probably not, if
> it's through a commercial ISP.

Karl Dallas and I share an inestimable advantage for the age of
Google that you don't.  Nobody *ever* has problems finding me on
the Internet.

Ursula Le Guin came up with a far-ahead-of-her-time idea in "The
Dispossessed", where people were allocated a randomly generated
unique-but-pronounceable string as their name.  If I was looking
for names for a child now I'd make sure their middle name was
something like Maxtiplod or Zabbarooda.

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