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Re: homePostalAddress attribute

To: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Subject: Re: homePostalAddress attribute
From: Andrew Findlay <andrew.findlay@skills-1st.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:30:20 +0000
Cc: Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>, Peter Lavender <plaven@bigpond.net.au>, openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:28:39PM +0100, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> Frank Swasey writes:
> > homePostalAddress: Line 1
> > homePostalAddress: Line 2
> > homePostalAddress: Line 3
> 
> That doesn't work, because there is no guaranteed order of the attribute
> values.

It is worse than that... The example above specifies three *separate*
addresses of one line each. There may indeed be people with three
homes, but the postal services are not going to get far if you hand
them three letters with one line from the address on each one!

Andrew
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References:
- homePostalAddress attribute
  - From: Peter Lavender <plaven@bigpond.net.au>
- Re: homePostalAddress attribute
  - From: Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>
- Re: homePostalAddress attribute
  - From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>

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