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User Registration and Management. As noted in the "Software Structure" chapter, the more identified, authenticated, and accountable people are, the better the opportunity for building a community out of an aggregate.

User Registration and Management

Thus the user database should record as much information as possible that might help Person A assess Person B's credibility. As you will see in the chapter on scaling, it may become important to facilitate occasional face-to-face meetings among subgroups of users. Thus it will be helpful to record their country of residence and postal code (what Americans call "Zoning Improvement Plan code" or "ZIP code"). Fat versus Skinny: the Ideas Suppose that the system specifications start off with very simple requirements for the user database, one that can be handled by the following single table: