[Chandler-dev] Adding a fullname field to ModifiedByRecord
Bryan Stearns
stearns at osafoundation.org
Mon Sep 24 16:24:28 PDT 2007
(I missed the beginning of this discussion, but one minor clarification... )
Jeffrey Harris wrote:
> Hi Reid,
>
>> There is no reason to ever strip away the "comment" part of an email
>> address in the context of email. If something *is* stripping it out,
>> prehaps it should be changed to not do so.
>
> For email, we store both parts, the email address and the display name,
> as separate attributes. This way,
>
> "Jeffrey Harris" <jeffrey at osafoundation.org>
>
> and a later
>
> <jeffrey at osafoundation.org>
>
> will be seen as the same email address.
We no longer consider them "the same" like this: in that example, those
are two different addresses.
(We do care about the similarity in only one case nowadays: we track
which addresses are "me" addresses, and any address whose address part
case-insensitively matches an existing "me" address will also become a
"me" address.)
...Bryan
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