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 jandjsm...@example.com, 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.

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