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[arethinn]

I'm confused about swapping names on two accounts (which I want to do on IJ). This tutorial doesn't seem to make sense. (It's also from 2003 and I am wary that it may not reflect current code.) It instructs me to have three journals, foo, bar, and baz (baz is the disposable mediary); rename baz to foo, making foo into ex_foo123; repeat/rotate (kind of a username Towers of Hanoi). But you can only rename a journal to a nonexistent username or to a purged username, can't you? Won't it say "foo already is in use"?

Also, I'm totally lost as to whether this will break username forwarding, or whether it's possible for that to still work. It seems logically like it should break, since how is it supposed to know that if you type <lj user="foo"> that actually you meant to forward to bar, since both foo and bar are both still attached to different user IDs? I assume it will not be allowed to enter a loop, but I still don't see how it could possibly work.

Are these not even right and proper questions? I may not be thinking clearly about this whole process at all.

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[baxil.livejournal.com]

Actually, on further examination, nicked_metal is the one who wrote the FAQ you linked. Perhaps drop him a line directly? (Especially since we already all run in the same circles; he comments on my journal periodically and is in next_of_kin.)

[arethinn]

Er, well, we are talking about IJ here. The codebase is substantially similar, but not identical. I don't see that I should expect him to answer questions about another journal site.