All posts in the topic Users with the same email address? (Short link)

From: Richard Waid Date: May 08 21:58 UTC Short link

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 08:23 +1200, Annelies Pekelharing wrote:
> Dan, I have just entered George and Jude French as members of bush-rescue.
> Do I enter them both together. I don't seem to enter both seperate as they
> have the same e-mail address.

Hi Annelies:

Not Dan, but I'll field this one.

Unfortunately it's not possible, for a variety of reasons, to have two
users with the same email address. The options are:

  1: As you suggest, create a single user for both of them. We generally
discourage this since we like to know the source of problems in the case
of abuse. In this case I think that is fairly unlikely :)

  2: Have one of them create a free email account with Google, or Yahoo
etc.

I'm sorry we're not able to offer a better solution -- unfortunately
these days email addresses are the closest thing one has to a 'unique'
identity on the Internet.


Best regards,

Richard Waid
Onlinegroups.Net