# Changing Username Stops Email Notifications

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2017年九月11日 09:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799 "2017-09-11T09:49:09Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年九月12日 10:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/15 "2017-09-12T10:25:41Z")

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> [@JamesNorth](#):
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> the fact that the username is now identical to the group name

That’s definitely not recommended. Groups and users share a namespace. I don’t even think that’s supposed to be possible.

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