Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

[Scott Stoddard]

Kurt Lieber wrote:
> What purpose does this serve?  This would create all sorts of confusion.
> Right now, you can meet someone in IRC and make a reasonable assumption
> that their email address is <irc nick>@gentoo.org.  This would confuse
> things horribly imo.  What about people like me that span multiple roles?
>
> What happens when someone (again, like me) starts out in one area, moves to
> another, then still a third and finally a fourth?  We're going to be
> updating aliases all over the place and for what?
>
> How does any of this make Gentoo Linux a better distro?  Does it reduce
> bugs?  Improve QA?  Can I add -staff.gentoo.org to my CFLAGS and get a
> 0.00001% speed increase?
>
> There is no technical reason why any of this is necessary and it doesn't
> provide any tangible benefits that I can see.  If a user really wants to
> know someone's role within the project, they can go look it up on the web
> site.
>
> --kurt

You're preaching to the choir here (at least in me), I don't personally 
understand why everyone doesn't just have an @gentoo.org address - it 
seems the simplest possible solution, but it was the devs that seem to 
see it as some sort of a sin.

Whatever subdomain gets implemented now is only going to be half-used 
anyway because of the number of people grandfathered in from previous 
arrangements with @g.o addresses.

Personally I can't think of the last time I saw a company that forced 
one division of its' employees to use a different email address.  Seems 
to me like telling all of the secretaries at a law firm that they have 
to use @secretaries.firm.com

That all said, I am but one person with one opinion on the matter.

Scott.

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