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From: "Excalibur131" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Question
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:51:41 -0400
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bob, IF I'm understanding you correctly this morning, you are now saying
that when you add a person in the Tag memo you are NOT actually adding the
person to your database at all. Is that correct? IF that is correct, then
that is your method of doing it, but it doesn't really have anything to do
with witnesses or roles used in sentences does it? I think the fallout of
this thread is that a person is a person, not to be confused with the role
that person may play. *Some* of your person entries do not get any database
entry whatever, while other people would enter these same people in their
database.

The other part is that using roles does NOT require anyone to add any
unnecessary people to their data. An additional person can be mentioned in a
variety of ways, as it appears that you do. However, if an additional person
is added to the database, they are there for better or worse with no regard
for what role they may be playing. Individual users can make the choice to
use roles or not.

As for data clutter -- what is one persons clutter is another persons pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow.
Tom
Royalty to Rogues
http://www.l-dunaway.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: "bob gillis" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Question


> Thank you Lee for clarifying my message. When I refer to roles I mean
> Custom Roles. Originally people could be Principals or Witnesses. There
> were no Roles. When Roles started being used, Principals and Witnesses
> then became Roles.
>
> If a user uses witnesses or witness roles in sentences and if the person
> is not already in his data, the user has to add a person to his data, .
> If that person is used only a few times in sentences and is not related to
> the other people in the data, then I think it much easier to add them in
> the Tag memo.
>
> bob gillis


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