Re: Debian machine usage policy

[Steve Robbins <steve@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca>]

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote:

> Wichert Akkerman - Debian project leader wrote:
> > * Forged headers and / or Addresses
> >   
> >           Forging headers or messages means sending mail such that its
> >           origin appears to be another user or machine, or a
> >           non-existent machine.
> >           
> >           It is also forgery to arrange for any replies to the mail to
> >           be sent to some other user or machine.
> >           
> >           However, in either case, if prior permission has been
> >           granted to you by the other user or the administrators of
> >           the other machine, then there is no problem, and of course
> >           "null" reverse paths can be used as defined in the relevant
> >           RFCs.
> 
> I suspect that this .muttrc fragment violates the letter of the DMUP:

You know, if you slightly rearrange the title of this document to

  "Debian Usage-of-Machines Policy"

you'd get a better acronym: DUMP (which is what I keep reading "DMUP" as
anyway).

Just trying to be helpful,

-Steve