Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

[Brian Harring]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:16:06AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote:
> Is there a possibility to have each 'type' of staff have there own
> subdomain. ie.  @testers.g.o for at/ht
> 		@docs.g.o for document persons
> 		@infra.g.o for infrastucture
> 		etc...
> 		@staff.g.o for non-specific staff
> 		@g.o for devs
No (and hopefully this email finally kills this line of thought off :)

fex, for me
ferringb@g.o
ferringb@portage.g.o
ferringb@infra.g.o (portage infra crap plus distfiles)
ferringb@(recruiters|devrel).g.o (recruiters)

for solar
solar@g.o
solar@infra.g.o
solar@council.g.o
solar@docs.g.o
solar@hardened.g.o
solar@x86.g.o

Etc.  I'm naming subdomains off the top of my head to match 
high level grouping, but it should be clear this isn't a tenuable 
path to take both for devs, and for harassing infra with alias requests.

> Further, have an alias from @g.o to @<subdomain>.g.o, with an email
> returned to the sender if the subdomain is incorrect.

Aliasing sucks due to the need to remove the alias after a role 
changes- if I stop doing recruiting, that alias now needs to be 
disabled.  Either you bounce the email, or you leave the alias in 
place- either solution sucks if you're trying to do subdomains and 
have them actually mean something.

This also is not even remotely getting into the question of 
segregating gentoo peeps, something I dislike.

It's just not a good way to manage things with people changing roles, 
nor does the subdomain addition really mean anything imo- if I had all 
of those aliases, I'd still send from ferringb@g.o.  Can't tell what 
the hell I do based upon the from, still would have to resort to doing 
some digging...

~harring