Re: Unique User Hashes

At 1:54 PM -0500 2/18/09, Andrew Ballard wrote:

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: Granted this is an involved method, but email addresses are unique and thus

ensures one vote per email address.

E-mail addresses are (somewhat unique -- not getting into aliases, forwards, and such) e-mail delivery points, they are not a unique index of PEOPLE. You point out below that a single person can have multiple addresses. I also know several families where the entire family shares one address.

No -- email addresses are unique. Don't confuse the issue by looking at how many people can use a single email address, but rather that each email address IS unique that many people can use. Keep in mind that on the right side of the @ is the domain name, which is absolutely unique -- and on the left side of the @ only one mail box per specific string is allowed. While I can have "tedd@sperling.com" and "ted@sperling" dump into one account, there is still only one account. The process has to be that way or this email thing would not work. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com