[turba] Re: Contact Management

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting James Tavares <jtavares@loa.com>:

> I guess there is no reason why a group couldn't have its own email address
> either. It would just be included in the list of email addresses that the
> group name expands too. Groups have phone numbers, fax numbers, addresses,
> and notes... Just like people do.
> 
> It's all just an idea... This all would fit just fine with my LDAP
> definitions in my previous email as well, since there was only one tree
> (cn=OBJECTID, ou=username@domain, o=myOrg  --OR--  cn=OBJECTID, ou=objects,
> o=myOrg with an ownerID: attribute in each entry) for all objects.. An
> object that is currently a contact could at any time be turned into a group
> as well.

That makes sense to me, I think... I think we should make it easy for people to 
make the kind of "expansion-list" groups they're used to thinking of, but this 
sounds useful. I don't know if there's a more standard LDAP way to do it, but 
I'd be interested in seeing the code you've come up with.

-chuck

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