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Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> You mean we put things like "AUTHOR=rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu" for emacs?

Or maybe just emacs-questions@gnu.ai.mit.edu or wherever the FSF asks
that emacs feedback go.  But I wouldn't constrain it to being an
email address.

> Besides, how exactly are you planning to use it?  The author can be a

Just as an info field - I'd like to be able to remember where I got a
port from at a glance, basically.

If nobody else is enthusiastic, I hope there will be no objection if I
use it in my own port submissions?

						Jordan