Hi Charles, *,

2011/1/14 Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]>:
> Le Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:33:26 +0100,
> Volker Merschmann <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> For the rest: I do not like any of the offered domain names, they all
>> are too long. I would like to see [email protected] for the
>> members.
>>
>> @Florian: What "irritating issues" do you mean?
>
> I think he means that anyone logging on to OpenOffice.org automatically
> had a default @openoffice.org and that some people started to use that
> alias while they were neither speaking on behalf of the project nor
> even regular contributors. And since there was no real membership
> management you could spend years away from the project and still
> using @openoffice.org And I think that the marketing project of OOo had
> quite a lot of work to "discipline" people, yet there was no effective
> control because addresses were essentially given to anyone.
>
> So that's what we would want to avoid, but there's a fine line between
> avoiding this and rebuking actual contributors.
>
I understand now what has been meant. But I think this is prohibited
by that what I read about membership in the bylaws.

Volker


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