On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:20:57PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:39:17PM +1100, Sam Johnston wrote: > I think the main problem of the DMUP WRT @d.o is the sole coverage of > *incoming* mail, thus stating (at least to me) that it's more about > being bandwidth-aware than being concious about the outward appereance.
Since when did Debian turn from a group of hackers to a group of marketing suits? This idea that e-mail addresses confer a notion of "speaking on behalf of the organization that owns the domain" is entirely laughable. Let me give you a few examples: 1. In the early days of the Internet, virtually nobody had e-mail addresses aside from their employer or university. An e-mail from berkeley.edu does not mean this is a statement on behalf of Berkeley. 2. I used to have the address @southwind.net. southwind.net was my Internet provider. Southwind employees also has e-mail addresses @southwind.net, which looked the same as customer addresses. Would you automatically assume that anyone sending an e-mail from southwind.net spoke on behalf of the company? 3. I had the e-mail address @cs.twsu.edu, for the Computer Science department at Wichita State University. So did several thousand other students, faculty, and staff. Nobody was so stupid as to think that any e-mail from there was an official statement from the University. The list goes on and on. People today have @aol.com addresses or @earthlink.net addresses. Do you think that every one of those millions of people are representing their ISP in public? I really don't understand where this notion comes from. > Furthermore, I believe that "outgoing" @d.o mail is a bigger problem than > incoming mail, because that's when you actually appear as a DD to (at > least a subset of) the internet. I don't care so much whether DDs get And here's a newsflash for you: *anyone*, not just Debian-related people, can set their From: address to be @debian.org. Any Debian policy will be rather ineffective combating that. > believe DDs should limit their From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] header to Debian I'm tempted to use a "then only the spammers will have @debian.org" argument here :-) > related activities and the big majority of the project seems to agree > with me. Somewhere around 70 people is not even close to a majority of the developers. In fact, it's a small minority. -- John
