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Subject: Re: Is BBDB really that bad?
Date: 3 Oct 2002 08:41:28 -0500
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On 3 Oct 2002, cbbrowne@acm.org wrote:

> we'd still need to write a tool (that doesn't exist) to apply
> some quasi-intelligence to the task of merging them.

This was one of the reasons I thought an RDBMS had some merit.
Its easy to maintain a history of elements within a database and
a history of two different BBDB's is what one would probably need
to do a "more correct" merge.

-- 
Galen Boyer