On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 05:36:59PM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote: > On 6/16/23 10:37, Rick Tanner wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >While working on numerous maps, I have noticed that some map authors (and/or > >map editors) included a contact email address in the map header. > > > >Nearly all of these addresses are no longer valid. For instance, some are > >University (College) addresses. And, many are from people I have not "seen" > >online in many years. > > > >Given the different methods of communication we now have available - IRC, > >Discord, and the mailing list -- those are the preferred ways to reach out > >to a map author for questions, comments, discussion, etc. instead of direct > >emails to the author. > > > >Does anyone have any concerns in regards to removing the email addresses > >from the map headers? > > > >If there are no issues or concerns, I will take care of updating all the > >maps to remove this content. To give this discussion some time, I would look > >at starting to make this change in 2023-July. > > I was thinking when I just saw the subject 'how many of those e-mail > addresses still work, and even if they do, is anyone looking at them'. > > I think that with the fact everything is in publicly accessible source > control, people can always use that to see the original creator (or at least > importer) of a given map, as well as who has modified it recently. That is > probably just as useful, if not more useful, than the info in the map header. > > Even if someone does want the old information, they can always look for it > in the source history (look at the old version when it still exists). >
Those few bytes aren't BOTHERING ANYONE and DOING NOTHING. Leave them alone - they are historical artifacts of people and times that have past. What is the problem that they are bothering anyone? Is this a social disease? > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > crossfire@metalforge.org > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html > Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html > Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ > Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ > Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com
