Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 19, 2010, 14:13 UTC
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- <46a038f91003190713m5d99a38fo898d9d2391103f3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've shown immense patience repeatedly explaining
No, you haven't. _You_ are misunderstanding.
We have what you want: email + name, and a mapping mechanism (mailmap) to cope with variations. It is good enough.
> Indeed, the only thing that makes this great idea a bad idea is > COMPATIBILITY CONCERNS; that's it.
Good... at last! But don't put ALL CAPS when you are in the wrong, mate. And wasting a lot of people's time.
m
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