UPDATE & SUMMARY, Sunday 7th March

[kippesp]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt"

Actually, we'll be tracking both.  The irritating thing is all the 
Club posts use only a yahoo ID.  The email address is totally bogus 
and was necessary since each post must have an email.  So for the 
Club, username is more appropriate.  However with the Group, some 
users do not specify their Yahoo name.  I can't think of an example, 
but you'll know one because Yahoo lists the email rather than a name 
such as "john williams."  So for the Group (messages 1 and up), the 
email is the only reliable user tracker across all messages.

I remember that both at the same time are necessary to follow a 
truer path of a user over time.

I'll take another look at this part.  It may be good to have the 
ability to link usernames/emails together.  But this is an extra 
complication that may be best held off for now.  I don't think a 
decision is needed right now since I doubt it matters for no more 
than 1-2% of the users (5% of total users probably make most posts 
and 80% of those would have remained the same).


> Another point: Posters names that are to  be entered into the 
table - are
> these the site nom-de-plume, e.g. Kneasy, or the email identifier?
> The latter can change  over time and circumstances; I  know that 
quite
> a few posters have switched service providers  away from Yahoo! 
(wise
> folk). Additionally, my  email identifier varies depending on how 
I submit 
> a post. It can be arrowsmithbt, BTArrowsmith or Barry Arrowsmith. 
This
> probably happens with others too. I suggest (if you haven't 
already decided)
> that the site ndp be used as poster ID. It seems to be more 
consistent over 
> time.
> Late breaking news: I see that Paul is suggesting the opposite; 
ah, well.