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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:09:34 -0600
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to
> pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail
> consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and
> he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus,
> but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed.

Indeed.

This is because the name/email pair (as in the 'name' and 'email'
config variables) CONFLATES the idea of identity and current email
account.