In message <20001213135638.C15125@vex>, David Maxwell writes:
>if MY identd hands you a timestamp, I'm now required to keep those logs
>for a(n unknown) period of time.

Why?  As a sysadmin handing out identd cookies, I have no obligation to anyone
that what they say is meaningful in any way; they're just tokens of esteem.
I'm allowed to have identd always claim that the user is really billg@,
it doesn't *matter*.

-s