Should web services reveal the running ticket numbers

What should one infer looking at ticket numbers assigned to support/feedback requests from web services ? numbers assigned to 2 tickets sent with a 1/2 hour gap..

Lots of clueless users or users with problems or passionate users ?

Have you written twice to a web service and been assigned consecutive numbers ? :-)

Should web services use and reveal running ticket numbers or use running numbers but reveal GUIDs?

Why and Why not ?

Update on 2007 01 16 Tue : Joshua Schachter: lessons learned: autoincrement considered harmful – mm. Did Joshua read this post ?

  • http://joshua.schachter.org/ joshua

    Sorry, I’ve been talking this up at conferences for a year now…

    Joshua