Re: Unique User Hashes

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:43 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 You're missing my point. Yes, e-mail addresses are unique delivery points. They can not, however, uniquely identify one and only one person -- which is what one would need in the OP's situation. Andrew