Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:08:07 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/160565: Please correct Handbook's email address for postmaster Message-ID: <201109081608.p88G871Q041304@albert.catwhisker.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201109081610.p88GABMQ055536@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 160565
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Please correct Handbook's email address for postmaster
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Sep 08 16:10:10 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David Wolfskill
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Wolfskill & Dowling Residence
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD albert.catwhisker.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #364 r225365: Sat Sep 3 04:30:29 PDT 2011 root@freebeast.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/ALBERT i386
>Description:
The current description of the "hat-holder" for Postmaster@
(in "A project model for the FreeBSD Project", ch. 5 ("Hats")
leads some folks to try to contact <dhw@freebsd.org> directly
for Postmaster-related issues, when it would almost(?) always be
better for them to use <postmaster@freebsd.org>.
Reasons for this include:
* dhw@ is one individual, and is thus a single point of failure.
postmaster@ is a team (currently, of three active members).
* I apply rather different mail filtering rules to mail
addressed to dhw@ vs. postmaster@. (E.g., mail that is not
about mail-handling @FreeBSD.org that I receive and is
addressed to postmaster@FreeBSD.org is nearly always
considered "confirmed spam"; my mail client color-codes mail
sent to postmaster@ uniquely so I can keep an eye out for it.)
* Mail sent to postmaster@ is automagically archived on hub, so
even if something happens to it such that the team members
ignore or discard it, we still have a record of it.
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
>Fix:
Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 book.sgml
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/book.sgml 15 May 2011 20:41:30 -0000 1.19
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/book.sgml 8 Sep 2011 15:57:55 -0000
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@
</para>
<para>
Hat currently held by:
- &a.dhw;.
+ the Postmaster Team <email>postmaster@FreeBSD.org</email>.
</para>
</section>
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