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From: "Bryan Wheelock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Is email unique?
> I have been trying to think of naturally occuring unique identifiers that
> people might use on the internet.
> I think that e-mail addresses would be a unique way to indentify an
> individual.
> Only one e-mail can exist per person. Although an email address could
change
> owners for the most part, each e-mail should be unique.
> Am I right?
I believe so. Many sites have started using e-mail addresses as log-in names
because of the same reasons you cited. I don't think that there are many
others that, as you stated, are naturally occuring. You could write a
function to assign unique names to your users, that's not difficult, but
that's a lot harder for a user to remember than their e-mail address.
Good luck,
Dennis
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