[csw-maintainers] new mailing list?

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Wed Jan 20 18:25:21 CET 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:25 AM, James Lee <james at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> This is a good idea and was called role based last time it was suggested
> here.  Business email should be sent to a role but received by a person.
> I also suggested that package maintenance represents a role and so
> package email should go to ${package}@opencsw.org and be forwarded to a
> person.  The key here is the person can change without changing the
> email address.
>

potentially nice idea.. but in practical terms, it ends up being a
HUGE spam burden, with little benefit to having a direct email
interface.
Are you saying you dont like the existing interface of,

webbrowse to www.opencsw.org/packages/{package}
click "email maintainer"

?



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