This message bounced that Evan was trying to send on Sunday... Dan Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:09:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Evan Leibovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Faber Fedor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: certification database and privacy In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@earth> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Faber Fedor wrote: > I have always liked the idea of using an email address as the unique > identifier, since that *has* to be unique, no? No, not really: - as a person changes jobs, professional email destinations come and go - personal email addresses can change as someone changes ISPs, or comes and goes from services such as hotmail - Some services which use aliases or euphamisms, could re-use them if someone leaves. Let's say someone's on AOL and got the mail alias of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once this person leaves AOL, the company is totally within its rights to assign the alias to someone else the next day. - Some people have multiple email addresses; I think I have five or so. -- Evan Leibovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO, Linux Professional Institute www.lpi.org Developing quality professional certification for the Linux community ________________________________________________________________________ This message was sent by the linux-cert mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail -s '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
