They are permanent numbers and will not be reused unless you go to heroic efforts under the table, e.g. I have restored a person to his former number when he was deleted accidentally. Fortunately the Deleted database keeps a small amount of info about former entries.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Elin, Rodney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:34 AM > To: TechRocks Support > Subject: [support] record number as permanent, unique identifier > > > We are soon going to send a mailing to our 1,300 members and I would > like to include the record number on the address label, so we can easily > identify and remove returned mail from or database. Is the record number > fixed in any way so that I can refer to it in the future. Say, for > example I remove member #1001, them we will have 1,299 members in our > database. Does everyone's ember get incremented by one in that case, If > I try to look up member number 555 later, will I then have to look up > number 556, and so on? > > ~Rodney > > ------------------ > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and > enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase > support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
