I used to have a single contact for Bob and Wendy Doe, but now need two
contacts, since they have different email addresses.  (Is this really
necessary?  Comments welcome.)  I thought I'd duplicate the contact for
"Bob & Wendy Doe); but this doesn't seem to be possible; file systems
allow making copies of files to other files with similar names like say
   $ cp -a foo foo.bk
but evolution allows nothing like this with contacts.

So I thought I'd copy the contact for Bob&Wendy from my Personal
contact list into another list called KeyNames, then edit the two
copies so that the one in Personal is for Bob Doe and the one in
KeyNames is for Wendy Doe; then copy the one in KeyNames (for Wendy
Doe)  back to Personal.  This fails; I get a message warning of a UID
conflict.  Well, thought I, I'll export the contact for Wendy Doe from
KeyNames as a vcard and import this back into Personal.  This also
fails for the same reason, but silently; if I edit the vcard to remove
the line:
   UID:pas-id-419866BF000000A3
everything works.

I can't be the only person who has needed to do this kind of thing.

Questions:  
 * Would it be practical to allow contacts to be duplicated within the
   same list?
 * What is the function of the UID in a vcard?  Is it necessary?
    Desirable?

-- 
Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonr...@pacbell.net> Those who would give
up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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