[Chapter-delegates] Preview on ISOC website developments

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Dear Anne,

While one member with several email addresses can be managed in a
database with an alternate email address 1) alternate email address 2)
columns, several members with one email address should cause confusion
in database management

>From a member's point of view one member with several email addresss
is an unavoidable situation. Most people today have more than one
address, log into different addresses at different point of time, one
or two addresses become dormant over time. Due to this reason, the
system of alternate or secondary mail addresses is imprerative.

Today it is not difficult at all to pick up a new email address. It
doesn't cost anything and it is done quickly. So what is the need to
allow several members with one email address, even if the members
sharing the email address happen to be a husband and wife as pointed
out ?

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

On 12/6/07, Anne Lord <lord at isoc.org> wrote:
> 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
> --
>
>
>
> > 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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