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[Anne Lord]

hi All,

Sorry if any confusion was caused.

I agree with Patrick's note below. The various scenarios : one member  
with several email addresses (many membership systems that you sign  
up to ask for primary email address and secondary email address) or  
two members sharing one email address are all  scenarios that need to  
be catered for. What we are trying to avoid are duplicates and "bad  
data" however this is defined.

regards,

Anne
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> Khaled KOUBAA wrote:
>> Alan,
>> Good you raised this argument.
>> And both situation are logic, but in my point of view a membership
>> system should provide at any time a reliable statistic and  
>> information
>> about the real number of member.
>> As I told if I have the right to be member three time each time with
>> different data or more being member twice using the same data,  
>> this is
>> not reliable.
>>
> In my perception, each record in a database should have a unambiguous,
> globally unique identifier. An email address does not fit that  
> criteria.
> It can change, be shared, can become invalid, be recycled for another
> person, etc. Thus it cannot be used to distinguish one record from
> another. In the present case, the membership number should be the one
> distinguishing one member from another.
>
> I agree with Alan there are situations where several people share a
> single email address. I have 2 such members in my chapter, one of them
> being virtually inexistent for ISOC. I also agree some members may  
> want
> to receive communications from ISOC on several e-mail addresses.
>
> Patrick
>
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