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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Question about developer/bug assigned person's mail adress (as seen in Bug #453778)
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:48:51
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8hF2NZsniG5yMjHppWQWkGz5hec_1Z8LYDCZgNWAmJmXA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Question about developer/bug assigned person's mail adress (as seen in Bug #453778) by "Michał Górny"
1 On Apr 2, 2013 9:46 PM, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:37:45 +0100
4 > Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Apr 2, 2013 9:24 PM, "Martin Dummer" <martin.dummer@×××.net> wrote:
7 > > > Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453778 is assigned to
8 > > > "Dustin Polke" <gentoobugsie.20.dsurawicz@×××××××××××.com>
9 > > >
10 > > > While the bug is easy to fix and close, no action happens.
11 > > > So I tried to find out whats the meaning of this strange email
12 address.
13 > > >
14 > > > After a visit to https://spamgourmet.com/ this mail address means that
15 > > > only the first 20 emails send to this address are forwarded to the
16 > > > registered user's real mail address. Any further mails are discarded.
17 > > >
18 > > > Now my question: is this a good behaviour for a developer?
19 > > >
20 > > > What's your opinion?
21 > >
22 > > The developer is active he just does not need a working e-mail address.
23 >
24 > In my opinion every developer *should* have a working e-mail address.
25 > Imagine that someone might want to mail him -- it's really impolite to
26 > provide a fake address which will drop all incoming mail silently.
27 >
28 > --
29 > Best regards,
30 > Michał Górny
31
32 He is just the proxy-maint for autofs. But you could ask him to provide a
33 real address if you want to.