Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at networkresonance.com>]

At Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:22:42 +1100,
Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > We are considering changing the meeting Blue Sheet by eliminating the 
> > need to enter an email address to avoid spam concerns.
> > 
> > Is there any good reason to retain that info bit?
> > 
> > Ray
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> 	It's is the only unique token on the blue sheets.  This
> 	assumes no shared email accounts which is a pretty reasonable
> 	assumption in this case.

I'm not getting why this is important. It's not like we're using it
to key a hash table. As Ole observes, the blue sheets are used primarily
for counting attendance, and I hear, occasionally as proof that someone was 
actually present. In both of these cases, I think we can probably
tolerate this amount of ambiguity.

-Ekr
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