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[Nathan]

Or pointless all around? If we were using it for some reason beyond
snickering and ogling and a little bit of "Oh shit I post too much"
then making it more technically correct would be key, but...

On Jan 9, 2008 2:47 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 8:40 PM, Kalan <kalan.001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2008/1/10, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> > > Is there any way you could merge the counts for people with multiple
> > > email addresses? Some way for people to enter addresses into a form to
> > > say they are the same person (and some way for others to review it)?
> >
> > Sure, that is quite possible. To prevent abuse, such form may require
> > login and accounts may be restricted, for example, to me and list
> > moderators (or maybe also stewards or even any user in good standing).
> >
> > By the way, grouping is performed not by email address, but by "real
> > name" setting.
> >
>
> I might be missing something but wouldn't confirmation emails be
> easier for this than a set of admins and manual approval? Something
> like "Thomas Dalton (thomas.dalton at gmail.com) claims that your
> email address should be grouped together with thomas.dalton at
> gmail.com Please click here to confirm"
>
> Or is this technically more difficult?
>
> Michael
>
>
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