From: Martin Langhoff Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:13:14 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <46a038f91003190713m5d99a38fo898d9d2391103f3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Michael Witten 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 -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff