Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Why unique constraints should be treated with care

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4: Re: Why unique constraints should be treated with care (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 01/27/06 05:09 PM
Malte,

I don't have an opinion either way, I just wanted the change, if there is one to go through the proper process. Thanks for bringing this up for discussion.

On email, I think requiring unique makes sense since we use the email to actually _send_ email out. So in your case where several people use "mailto:info@company.com"; it makes sense to leave email blank instead. It makes no senese to use email at all like that. In a community system where family members share an email, I don't know the best way to support that, that makes sense. I guess you'd risk duplicate emails to the same address and there isn't much you can do about it.

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9: Re: Re: Why unique constraints should be treated with care (response to 4)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 01/29/06 12:53 PM
such group mail accounts are pretty common, such as secretary@institute, webmaster@somehost, bugs@oacs, current-person-in-charge@office, etc. It is not a good idea to use such email addresses as "personal email addresses" , but to provide email addresses for groups/communities, where the people in question can be added to, such that incoming emails are distributed accordingly. It would be actually quite convenient to to use dotrln communities as a mail reflector...

in your example, make a group/community info, subscribe the people in question to it, and set the reply-to address for outgoing mails. doesn't do forums something similar already?

just my 2 cents...