[OGo-Users] ics calendar files

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > This is a big gotcha.  Especially if your database is like mine -
> > ~25,000 contacts only a small percentage of which have e-mail  
> > addresses,
> > and of those that do some are *not* unique  (here in the "rust belt"  
> > it is still not at all uncommon to have everyone at a company share 
> > an  AOL or MSN account, for example).
> I think ZideStore can somehow autogenerate fake email addresses for  
> matching. 

I thought so,  but in my [minimal] testing it didn't seem to work.

> But anyways, thats how iCalendar works, there is little we  
> can do about it.

Understood,  the e-mail address is the only *natural* presumed-unique
key.  In regions of the world with pervasive broadband I imagine
[jealously] that it works well;  in the USA, once you leave the Tear1 or
Tear2 cities broadband availability is spotty.

> (we can add X- tags, but those are not ensured to preserved, hence not  
> reliable).

Yep.  Most DAV clients only seem to implement the bare necessary
features.

> >> Also I'm not sure how you could loose the participants of *all*  
> >> events
> >> if you saved just one. Did you use iCal-over-HTTP or CalDAV? Using  
> >> the
> >> former for editable calendars is strongly discouraged. yes, maybe we
> >> should completely disable this feature per default, Adam?)
> > Agree;  I know that I'm tired of explaining why iCalendar PUT is/was a
> > bad idea.
> Well, it can be useful in some situations. But I guess abuse is the  
> bigger issue.

Yes.