Wow, how do they expect to print all those names on one page? One thing I've been wondering about this is: "...we are only allowing the verifiable names of individuals in the ad. Individual, verifiable names only. Company names, URLs and false names will be removed."
How do they verify the names? I've donated money, but I have no idea how they will find out that I'm a real person.

I suspect that anything that could plausibly be a real name will be accepted. The only real verification that probably takes place is to make sure that there are no corporate names, web address, or profanity anywhere.

Either that, or part of your $30 is spent on a background check. ;)

marv: Fitting the names is one thing, but surely they don't expect to reduce everyone to 6pt greeked glory because they've oversubscribed. I'm more interested by what will happen when two people with the same name sign up... there must be a lot of people called John Smith in the world.

I'd guess that these reasons and others (ambiguity between first and family name, etc) imply that the advertisement will be listed in name order and have a capped number of names. It would be unscrupulous for Mozilla to take $30 for a name that's already in the paper if they plan to remove duplicates :)

It would be great to have more official information about all this. Do they plan two pages if they get more than, say, 7500 names?

Ugh, *won't* be listed in name order (probably in donation-id order, or by some referal rating or sfx-related number)

If they remove duplicates, how will you know? :-)

I feel sorry for the poor guy named Charles Schwab who decides he wants to donate but can't because somebody thinks he's really a company. ;-)

[I suspect that anything that could plausibly be a real name will be accepted. The only real verification that probably takes place is to make sure that there are no corporate names, web address, or profanity anywhere.

Either that, or part of your $30 is spent on a background check. ;)]

I think the verifying thingy is just to unsure that some joker dun put name like Microsoft, Bill Gates, Steve Balmer, Steve Jobs :roll: ,etc

kstahl: What are the chances that a list of five to ten thousand names contains no duplicates? Pretty slim, I'd say. Even without knowing two people with the same name (or one person who registered twice with different details), it would be pretty easy to guess that they had removed duplicates.

Will me and my friend, I.P. Freely, be able to get our names listed?