Maintainers must be reachable by email

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Aug 30 08:57:09 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 10:41 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> A fellow Fedora Extras contributor sends a private mail, probably to be
> treated confidentially, to another contributor. But the mail is rejected
> automatically due to rigorous or misconfigured SPAM filtering, IP
> blacklists or SPF problems. The sender tries again from another account,
> e.g. GMail, and once more, the mail is rejected in the same way. This is a 
> frustrating experience for the sender. More frustrating than not getting
> a reply because perhaps a message is discarded silently. ;)

Any email address which is afflicted by the idiocy which is SPF
shouldn't be acceptable as a maintainer's contact address -- just like
mailing lists which only allow posts from subscribers.

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dwmw2




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