Re: maintainers with bad email addresses
> On 05-Apr-00, 13:19 (CDT), "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > I think it should be a requirement that Debian maintainers have email
> > addresses which accept all validly formatted email, at least in
> > response to bug-reporting discussions. Is this controversial?
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> The problem is that some maintainers may be using a ISP that is using
> something like ORBS or the DUL, and changing ISPs may not be a real
> option.
That's a problem.
More generally, "accept" is ambiguous with mail, since you can never
guarantee that mail will always work. ORBS/DUL is just one class of
problem [system down for several weeks is a tougher class of problem
for some people].
[Also, I'm not sure about validly formatted.. Does that mean rfc 1855
compliant, or does that mean rfc 2045 compliant, or..]
--
Raul
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