I already said that they COULD use their E-mail address if they wanted to. I said ANY STRING. What is the problem? You do realize that millions of Web sites, i

I already said that they COULD use their E-mail address if they wanted to. I said ANY STRING. What is the problem? You do realize that millions of Web sites, including every financial institution's (that I've ever seen, anyway) let (or require) users set up legitimate IDs that are separate from their E-mail addresses, right? Or is this news to you? Millions of forums based on PHPBB alone use proper user IDs instead of forcing users to use an E-mail address. That's just one open-source forum system: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=546501 https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=546501 If you want more info on why E-mail addresses are a stupid user ID: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use-e-mail-address-as.html https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-us...