On Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:23:39 PM UTC+1, Brett Profitt wrote:
> Some networks don't use email at all. It's not unique so it can remain
> empty if needed.
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Federico Mestrone <fmes...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>> I'm doing some work on social logins (connecting with Facebook, Twitter,
>> Google+ and the lot) and in setting it up so that existing users would be
>> connected to their account rather than registered again when using the
>> social login feature, I realised - to my surprise - that the email field in
>> elgg_users_entity is not a unique key.
>> I'm just curious to know whether this was a conscious choice and what the
>> reasoning behind it was, as in pretty much all social networks I know of a
>> user is only allowed to register an email address once.
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