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John Rouillard wrote:
> What would be nice is the ability to merge two user objects. I often
> get spare user objects from the same person because of submission from
> different addresses that were not associated with the original user.

Yes, right -- this has occurred to me as well...

Maybe this would be the use case for a script which

 * assigns everything to user A what is owned by B,
 * replaces every entry of B with A
 * and finally retires B.

> Actually that reminds me I wanted to code up the ability to use
> wildcard email addresses like:
> 
>    rouilj@...
> 
> to match rouilj@ any host at cs.umb.edu.

It seems you own even more addresses than I do ;-)
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Tobias

John Rouillard wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:18:42 +0200, "Tobias Herp" said:
> >when a retired user sends a mail, a new user is created, reusing
> >the old username (but with a new id, of course).
> >
> >Is this a bug, or is it a feature?
> 
> I'd say it was working as intended since you retired the user and
> declared the user's object dead. It shouldn't be resurrected on the
> basis of an (easily forged) loose association with the real user.

Yes... it's not a really burning issue to me, I just wondered.

> >Would it be more desirable to reanimate the retired user instead?
> 
> Maybe. The question is does the site the email is comming from reuse
> email ID's. If so then the reanimated user would not necessarily be
> the original user.

Right. It might depend on the practice on the site concerning retiring users. And maybe a canonical way of temporarily deactivating users would be useful?

Or the time since the old user was retired/last active could be used for a decision.
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Cheers,

Tobias