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Author Re: wishlist: spamhaus SBL+XBL on d.o accounts
Steve Greenland

2004-08-28, 5:48 pm

Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com linux.debian.devel:154661

On 28-Aug-04, 06:41 (CDT), Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> wrote:
> You may not, but people tend to expect to be able to contact Debian
> Developers through their debian.org address. [Or, at the very least, I
> tend to expect to be able to contact people by the address listed in
> db.debian.org.]


You should expect to be able to contact the maintainer via the address
in the package, which probably ought to match that in db.debian.org. Or
<package>@packages.debian.org (or whatever that address is). None of
which is linked to username@debian.org except by choice.

> Of course, if you really don't like your debian.org address, why not
> just discard the email?


Because letting it be delivered and then thrown away still wastes the
bandwidth?

Steve

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Steve Greenland
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net


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