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Re: Strawpoll on proper usage of @debian.org email address



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.

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