SoC E-Mail Addresses
Mark Doliner
mark at kingant.net
Mon Apr 28 03:09:25 EDT 2008
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:29:07 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote
> Richard Laager spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > Are we going to issue soc.pidgin.im e-mail addresses this year? I'm not
> > sure if there's a strong need for them or not. Perhaps we want
> > @pidgin.im accounts instead so people don't need to swap out their MTN
> > key later if they stick around? (If they don't, it doesn't really matter
> > either way.)
>
> I think they're a good idea in general. It gives people an easy
> handle on what's SoC versus regular developer commits for the summer
>
> (people are genuinely interested in SoC, specifically), for one
> thing. That said, I don't have strong feelings either way. It's
> easy to issue @pidgin.im addresses if SoC students stick around, and
> it's easy to revoke them if they don't. I'm a big fan of namespaces
> on the whole, though. :-)
I'm in favor of @soc.pidgin.im for the same reasons. In the past did we set
up all the email addresses to just forward mail to another account? What's
the procedure for adding a new email address? Just edit /etc/aliases on homing?
-Mark
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