From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:18:35 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <40aa078e1003241218s753c1986r3dde7281c513de07@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ba780dc.5744f10a.5517.4c2d@mx.google.com> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Michael Witten wrote: >     However, it's still the case that Michael Haggerty >     is essentially stuck with "mhagger@MIT.EDU" for >     his identification---a problem that my proposal >     essentially fixes, as described now:] > >    I'm proposing ALLOWING him to say: > >        [user] >            uuid  = Michael Haggerty >            name  = Michael Haggerty >            email = mhagger@ALUM.mit.edu > ...which is the exact same situation as above, where he's "stuck" using "mhagger@MIT.EDU" for identification. I don't see how this changes anything (except allowing to distribute an updated contact-email... But let's face it, git-repos aren't Facebook) -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund