On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:10:06PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:13:23PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: > > * Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> [2004-01-23 10:47]: > > > 3.) Would it suffice to document the (presumable) opinion of the > > > project in the Debian Developer's Reference as 'best practice'? > > > > Documenting this in the Developer's Reference is certainly a good > > idea. This way, new and old developers would be aware of these issues > > and see what others think. I think the poll showed fairly clearly > > that you shouldn't use @d.o addresses as a general purpose address. > > Debian's not an ISP, after all. > > I don't think this really makes sense. For instance, in the poll, 76% > of the people opposed use as a general purpose address, but 92% > supported putting it on one's personal homepage. I'm really curious > what those people were thinking, since that seems an outright > contradiction. I'd interpret it as "I don't think it's a good idea to use it for everything, but I don't see a real problem with doing it sometimes", because that way it makes sense. That is, it's discouraged, but nobody really cares. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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