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Should person email be required? #355

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
For Thinkup I added Gina Trapani but she doesn't provide an obvious email 
address. Rather a Google form is provided on her blog

"You can send me an email using *this form*. Full disclosure: Most of the time 
I receive more email than I can respond to. Please, no press releases."

http://www.google.com/profiles/ginatrapani/contactme

(This requires a google account so is restrictive.)

Anyway I made up an email rather than google till I found one

So how many people don't have an public email address? Almost none. So I don't 
think these needs fixing but mentioned it for completeness.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ste...@fullmeasure.co.uk on 16 Nov 2010 at 1:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Person emails have to be required since they are unique identifiers for people.

Making up an "email" is reasonably OK since it then becomes an identifier 
rather than an email address. Unfortunately Simal doesn't know the difference.

A possible enhancement to cover this situation would be to require an 
identifier which, by default, is an email address (where one is supplied) or is 
generated to be unique if no email is provided.

However, this breaks the duplication detection on people which is done by email 
address.

No perfect solution is immediately obvious to me.

Original comment by ross.gardler on 16 Nov 2010 at 1:13