Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:51:04 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (3) about @XX.freebsd.org email account policies...??? Message-ID: <20021012173407.B84015-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <200210121412.g9CECS00008004@lurza.secnetix.de>
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I see your point that the @freebsd.org mail addresses are for the people who work for the FreeBSD project deeply. But there are still many people who contribute to the project in some way, even if their contribution is a handbook page or less. Then wouldnt it be nice that they get something in return? Obviously giving @freebsd.org address would be too much, but giving an @xx.freebsd.org address might be possible. Plus the use of these email addresses would let FreeBSD domain pop up on more mailing lists, web searches etc. Which would in return be a free advertisement for FreeBSD and hopefully increase the number of the people who thinks 'what is this freebsd?' =3D) I dont suggest that we give service like hotmail =3D) But, give these addresses to selected people who contribute to the project but the selection criteria might be relaxed little bit. For example these emails might be given to people who write documentation to FreeBSD, or to people who prove to be using FreeBSD as the main server or workstation operating system in their company or in their products. Thus contributing to FreeBSD even though they dont develop FreeBSD operating system. Evren On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > There was a question in one of the mailing lists some time ago > (I think it was on the questions list). Someone asked for a > mail alias or forward @freebsd.org. It was purely for vanity > reasons, obviously. The answer was "no", of course, and that > only those people get an account (and email) there who require > it for strictly _technical_ reasons, such as comitters, > maintainers of the actual hardware, and people who have to be > contactable through aliases like postmaster@, hostmaster@, > webmaster@ etc. > > I think that was a pretty clear explanation, and I don't see > a reason why the same policy shouldn't be adopted for subdomains > xx.freebsd.org as well. > > Regards > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 M=FCnchen > Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author > and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. > > "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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