<quote who="Tony Green">

> So I don't have to worry about writing something that'll keep things in
> sync.  If user FRED changes his email address etc, it should be
> automatically updated in all mailing groups he's in.
> 
> It will also make the 'front end' look nicer.  I won't have to reverse
> lookup each email address to find out who it belongs to.
> 
> I can write something to do it, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Hmm, my perspective on this was that changing an email address is done so
rarely that it wasn't worth the abstraction - however, that also means that
writing code to handle that particular case is not quite worth it too. :-)

I'll have a look around, it's a good point.

- Jeff

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