On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:08:12AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 03:10:06PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > (...) > >>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. > > I interpret differently: General advertising (like posting on personal > webpage - together with other email addresses, phone numbers and > physical addresses) is fine, but general *usage* is not ok. What the heck is the difference? Note that the "owner" of an email address is the single person who does not use it; it's used by all the people who send him mail, and he has little or no control over what they do. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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