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[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Dear Anne,

Thank you for this feedback. I will wait for the working group to be
set up to suggest detailed changes.


Thank you.

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