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I think that giving @LibreOffice.Org email addresses out to even non-members would be a good way of getting the name "Libre Office" out there and visible. People don't assume that Yahoo is represented by people with an @Yahoo.Co.Uk address so could we do something similar? I think making it a requirement to have a disclaimer in the signature is a non-starter because people will find all sorts of problems with that. By having the @LibreOffice.Org email addresses as a bit more exclusive, ie restricting it to members, makes people want it more but decreases the chances of getting our name out there. At this point both options have good & bad points but we need to be clear about which we are choosing and what we are losing because of that choice. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Michael Meeks <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 17 January, 2011 9:40:26 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] libreoffice.org e-mail accounts Hi guys, On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:52 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > > Leave the mail for TDF oficials as @documetnfoundation.org > > +1, I would even add the following: @libreoffice.org are only available > for official contributors and even they have to request it (I don't > exactly see the automatic need for, say, a code contributor to have > such an address). I would agree; that handing out @libreoffice.org addresses is a reasonable thing to do - for members. Unfortunately, we have no members yet: but the new MC hopefully will solve that problem for us. Clearly membership needs policing to avoid any mis-representation problems, but I think the number of these is very small. Incidentally, as we give developers git commit access, they get an @freedesktop.org re-direction anyway, so ;-) there is some elite club that they join that way. Free advertising is always good, so if we can get a million @libreoffice.org E-mails out, it can only be useful IMHO. ATB, Michael. -- [email protected] <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
