** On Jan 13, Marcus Brinkmann scribbled: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 10:04:19AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > I'm just saying we don't need to dish > > out accounts and email addresses like candy at a house on halloween. > > People concerned about that could try to convince the rest of us that new > maintainers should only get their key added to the keyring initially, and > email addresses and accounts are only given for some "good reason". > > I foretell that we would not get less applicants even with this restriction. > The main interest of people applying is to upload packages, not getting > yet-another-email-address. Don't forget about people who want the "another address" (or rather an account) to actually use it for some purpose - like compiling stuff on architectures/distros they don't have. In my opinion this is the main reason for having the account. marek -- Visit: http://caudium.net - the Caudium WebServer /* A completely unrelated fortune */ The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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