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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:16:48AM -0700, David King wrote: > >We already have something that can uniquely identify someone, and > >these > >sites already require users to give it to them. What's that, you > >ask? Why > >it's an email address. > Sure, an email address has one person, but a person can have many > email addresses, and a person occasionally gains and loses email > addresses. Actually an email address does *not* have one person. It might explode out to several peoples' mailboxes, or it might be one mailbox shared by several people - such as jandjsmith@xxxxxxx.xxx, shared by Mr John and Mrs Jane Smith. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Wing, and Chewbacca discovers that his Ewok girlfriend is really just a Womble with its nose chopped off.There's stuff above here
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