19 Feb
2011
19 Feb
'11
3:53 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote:
Also, people like me might say something different from a work email account than from a personal account.
I worry about using the email address as the key, because it makes it very difficult to *preserve* a user's history across address changes. I like my GMail account, but I've had old Comcast or university accounts from which I submitted bugs to RHEL years ago. If I'm not mistaken, index management by numerical keys can often be significantly faster than by text keys.
echo "Nico Kadel-Garcia G MM/DD/YYYY Born_in_City, Nation Mother's_Maiden_Name" | md5sum -t 352d6060b85ef831453bd71cfe22e9a9 -
works very well for ISP subscriber account numbers.