----- Original Message -----
From: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "cpaul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:37 AM
Subject: Re[4]: contact handles and we want to have your children
> Hello cpaul,
>
> Monday, July 16, 2001, 7:05:58 PM, cpaul wrote:
>
>
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> > The Highly Effective William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> >> Exactly. This is part of the OpenSRS system I've always thought was a
> >> little bit poorly implemented.
>
>
> > mmmmm good ... william's on-board ... now we're going places :)
>
> Well...let me preface that I don't think it would be reasonable to
> expect OpenSRS to change this at this late stage. Changing it to
> something along the lines I indicated would be prohibitive.
Yeah, it's a mess, with the potential to become a REAL mess. 'Late' is
relative... how many (unknown) contact records will I have five years from
now? Like anything else, doing it now would be easier than doing it later.
As it is, it could take some people months to round up all the different
profiles and 'implied' handles for their own contact data.
I imagine that like a number of OpenSRS systems, it's the way it is because
not a whole lot of thought went into the design. While not rocket science,
I can't believe that all the handle 'splitting' (is there also handle
'merging'?) and trying to match contact information to existing records is
either very developer or system resource friendly. Since a (manageable)
handle would still be based only within the OpenSRS database, it would seem
that the complexities of dealing with different registries could still be
well hidden from users.
Jim
