From Faculty Senate listserv:

Colleagues,
>
>When the email account reconfiguration was put into effect this week, it
>also affected the way that Ocean-based webpages were displayed in the USM
>online directory (we all had a webpage URL even if it was empty). Where
>before a webpage address might have shown up as
>ocean.otr.usm.edu/~facsenator, with the changeover this week the address
>automatically became ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w123456. In other words,
>everyone's emplid was on the directory.
>
>Needless to say, some folks weren't too pleased with this (did I capture
>the sentiment, Mary Beth?). I contacted Homer Coffman, the chief
>technology officer, about the matter this afternoon, and to his credit,
>Homer took immediate action. See his message below. Bill
>
>--
>William W. (Bill) Powell, Ph.D.
>President, USM Faculty Senate
>The University of Southern Mississippi
>Hattiesburg, MS 39406 USA
>Tel: 601-266-6072 Fax: 601-266-4853
>
>------ Forwarded Message
>From: Homer Coffman
>Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
>Reply-To:
>Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:07:12 -0500
>To: "'William (Bill) Powell'"
>Subject: RE: A couple of things...
>
>Bill,
>
>Until this issue around emplid has been corrected, I have removed personal
>websites from the public electronic directory to prevent disclosure of the
>individual's emplid. Today, the code looks for the email id and
>generates the URL (web addresses) from that name. This was not known to
>us when we started looking at the single sign on requirements and changing
>emails. We will change the way the code creates URL now to ensure Emplid
>is not in the address.
>Thanks
>
>Homer