Re: Cryptic messages from installers
Previously John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> your key has a key id. that key id can be used (well, the fingerprint
> anyway) to uniquely identify you. that fingerprint in also in the LDAP
> database. use that fingerprint as a key to query the LDAP to get an
> email for that same record.
yes, really bad plan. Sometimes you have good reasons to have the
install message send to a different address. Consider things like
jointly maintained packages. Or I might temporarily use a different
address if my ISP is down (never happened, but this is theory
anyway :) that is delivered to a place where I still can get mail.
Wichert.
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