Sharing an E-mail Address

[Carl n Susan]

My DW has been pressing me to get her own screen name on the MOC. So yesterday I set her up with her own id. In the process, the system wanted an e-mail address. I gave it our personal e-mail address which we share the use of (just like our checkbook). Not acceptable! That address is already in use (correct - it is the e-mail address associated with this id) according to the forum software and can not be used. I wound up supplying an old work related e-mail address just to get past the registration exercise.

After the new screen name was confirmed and working, I asked one of the administrators if they would change the e-mail address associated with the DW's screen name to the same one we use for all of our family e-mail. HOTR (thanks for the help) reported that the forum software rejects the change because "it is already in use by another member".

I know I can get more e-mail addresses from any number of sources. But we have one e-mail address that we both use already. We are not really interested in checking some other e-mail address for the infrequent e-mail from MOC members. Nor am I particularly happy having the MOC send mail to my work address even if it is an old address (it should be going away at some point).

It is not obvious to me why the e-mail address associated with a screen name has to be unique across the conference. Is this a "feature" or a changeable setting in the forum software? Screen names and the member's real names should be unique identifying attributes, but not an e-mail address

Is it possible change the forum software to allow multiple screen names to use the same e-mail address?