At 09:11 13/02/2001 -0500, Mike O'Dell wrote:
today, with many more people having email addresses
and many people having more than one email address
for good and righteous reasons, that model simply
doesn't work anymore. it isn't a "good-bad" thing,
it's a "not applicable at the current scale" thing.
it did work - it doesn't work anymore.
I recently had the dubious pleasure of sending out 40.000 emails to a set
of email addresses gathered (with the owners' approval!) over a period of
seven years.
The result was roughly 10.000 bounces (naturally), dozens of requests to
merge multiple registrations for the same person, and on the order of FIVE
occurences of an email address previously used by one person now being used
by another.
The mapping address -> person is pretty strong, and mostly single-valued.
The mapping person -> address is multivalued, and getting more so.
Not quite "not working", if we take it for what it is.
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