Maintainers must be reachable by email

[Tom Lane]

"Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com> writes:
> On 8/30/05, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> This discussion seems to be headed in a direction fairly close to
>> forbidding contributors from using spam filtering.  That's not a recipe
>> for improving communication; that's a recipe for losing contributors.

> I was going to say that maintainers/contributers need to make sure
> that they have some account that is freely available to people to send
> email to .. but I hate agreeing with David on things :)

That'll just move the problem over one space.  If you set up a new
account for Fedora work, it'll start getting spam as soon as the address
is publicly posted (and if it's not so posted, it's certainly of no use
to solve the originally stated problem).  I can't see that there's any
hope of expecting people to maintain an address that is both widely
available and spam-filter-free.

			regards, tom lane