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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can somebody explain me this address book crap?

Is it that some some address book software harvest emails automatically? For 
example, if I have Graham Binns in my address book and there is another Graham 
Binns emailing me with a different address, it will at some point 
automatically add that different email to the record?

Am I the only one thinking such behavior is broken, or at least not thought 
through properly. I can see that being useful in some cases, but annoying in a 
lot of others.


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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On June 11, 2010, Graham Binns wrote:
> On 11 June 2010 14:53, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 06/11/2010 05:51 AM, Graham Binns wrote:
> >>> Agree, the statement is basically "bug 111147 says that Jane Doe
> >>> changed me to confirmed/medium".
> >> 
> >> I like this solution, and I'm not sure why I didn't think of it in the
> >> first place, frankly.
> > 
> > 122 Bug addresses are already cluttering up my Thunderbird address book.
> >  I'd hate to see that get worse.  But I agree there's a difference
> > between Launchpad notifying you of a change, and Launchpad delivering a
> > message on another user's behalf.
> 
> I'm not sure we can do much to fix the
> bug-addresses-in-your-address-book problem, because it occurs when you
> reply to an email rather than when you receive one (at least that's my
> experience; YMMV depending on clients, etc.).

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