Hi Robin, I'm CC'ing the list because this potentially turning into a discussion.
List: the context is a small feature request above by Robin. I suggested he look into the .authorspellings mechanism instead. On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:24:21 +0000, Robin Green wrote: > Robin Green <gree...@greenrd.org> added the comment: > > No, I hadn't seen that - thanks. However, this would make maintaining the > .authorspellings file easier. > > Note that people could still share the same email address and be > distinguishable authors, by both prepending their names to their shared email > address. Could you clarify about this? What happens if we see just the naked email address? This sort of thing is making me want to pull out the KISS principle :-) We certainly would not want to find ourselves into a spiral of increasingly sophisticated workarounds for surprise interactions caused by increasingly sophisticated solutions. In any case, thanks very much for the idea! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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