Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 06:09:34AM -0600, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 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.
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