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Re: Allocation of member #'s
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 3 Jul 1999 00:36:27 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ed Jones writes:
> [interesting ideas snipped]
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> [...] And if someone already had a number, consider letting them change
> their number to the CLSotW number.
Heh heh, whoops, I guess I didn't make the uniquess aspect clear. :-)
There aren't any circumstances[1] where someone would ever be able to
change their number, once they've chosen it. The whole point of making
unique #'s in the first place is that they're permanent, one per person.
Kind of like social security or driver's license numbers, only I think I
may have hear rumors at one time that because of some computer glitch,
SS#'s aren't unique in 100% of the cases (but it was always inteded that
they be unique).
--Todd
[1] Except maybe if someone is part of a witness protection program and is
assigned a new identity by the government. But then in that case, they could
never say, so the old "them" would actually be dead and the new "them" would
actually be a new person, philosophically speaking.
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| (...) [snip - does any bother to do this anymore?] (...) Well from what I've read so far, people do care. So let me throw out another possibility - CLSotW numbers - it covers the majoirty of "oldtimers", they already exist in LUGNET and could be (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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