Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
- Date
- Mar 22, 2010, 12:06 UTC
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- <20100322120649.GA28003@sirena.org.uk>
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- <b4087cc51003190509y6ce7ad9dy992254cfe6ac2fb3@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:09:34AM -0600, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
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> > While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to > > pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail > > consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and > > he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus, > > but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed.
> Indeed.
> This is because the name/email pair (as in the 'name' and 'email' > config variables) CONFLATES the idea of identity and current email > account.
You're assuming they aren't conflated - for example, when people do work both personally and for their employer they often use distinct e-mail addresses to identify how the work was funded.