Thread: Easy Contacts Merging???
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Strive_Masiwa is offline Strive_Masiwa
2010-02-10 , 17:38
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#11
Originally Posted by mwerle View Post
Auto-matching just on names is dangerous - how many John Smith's are out there?
Auto-matching on something unique (eg, email address) should be fine.
Agreed (even though I have no 2 entries that match exactly on FirstName+LastName).
I am not sure what unique key could be used other than FirstName+LastName. It has to be something that is commonly used in all the protocols. I am not sure people use the same email address for msn as yahoo as ICQ as FB chat. Thats why I suggested FirstName+LastName. More matches (at east on my contacts list) that way.