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[Anne Lord]

hi Sivasubramanian,

Thanks for your comments. I would respectfully suggest that detailed  
discussions like these are conducted in the Membership system working  
group which I believe you have volunteered to be a member of.  The  
mailing list for this working group has not yet been set up, but it  
will be done soon.

Best wishes
Anne
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> 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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