Maintainers must be reachable by email

Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Tue Aug 30 16:59:12 UTC 2005


On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> /me wonders if giving people accounts on fedoraproject dot org would be a 
> useful idea.

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are in the business of managing free e-mail
accounts - might as well let them put up the resources for that.

We do have aliases for all accounts @fedora.redhat.com, if people dislike 
the idea of using addresses @gmail.com...

Best,
-- Elliot
Pioneers get the Arrows. Settlers get the Land.




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