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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Edwards wrote:

> > > Celso did a fix to ensurePerson() a while ago now and we've not had any
> > > problems since.
> > ...and that fixes the problem for us.  Thanks!
>
> This begs the question, how were you doing it before, and how can we avoid 
> that happening again?

We were doing it the hard way: check for a person with the given email 
address, and if none is found, create one.

So we already avoid this happening again, and in the best way I can 
think of: by making the right way to do it the lazy way as well.


Jeroen