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> El 25/10/13 20:14, Monica Chew escribió:
> > My bad, I took this requirement from the etherpad at
> > https://remo.etherpad.mozilla.org/email-policy. My point was not to
> > distinguish between paid staff and not, but to distinguish between mail
> > from Mozilla the project and a Mozilla contributor. Thus, the
> > recommendation to use mozillians.org or another domain that's easier to
> > distinguish from mozilla.{com,org}.
> When you say "the project" you mean the Corporation?

No, I don't. I mean there is a useful distinction between the follow 2 classes 
of mail:

1) Official email from Mozilla, the organization, for things like summit 
announcements, or service/product announcements.
2) Email from people affiliated with Mozilla.

It would be great announce to the world that all official Mozilla mail will 
authenticate from Mozilla, say, using DKIM, and that all unauthenticated mail 
claiming to be from Mozilla should be ignored. Because class 2) mail often goes 
through mailing lists, it has different characteristics and is very difficult 
to impose the same authentication requirements. See 
http://www.dmarc.org/overview.html for more information.

We already have these two classes conflated -- adding more addresses to a 
domain that typical users will find visually indistinguishable from 
mozilla.com, only makes this problem worse.

> Active Mozillians are part of the Mozilla Project, so the com vs org
> difference should be enought to distinguish between paid and non-paid staff.

Sorry, I'm confused. Are we supposed to distinguish between paid and non-paid 
staff, or not? If not, one should not have to remember whether someone is paid 
staff or not in order to reach them, nor should they have to change email 
addresses if their employment status changes. In a perfect world, I would 
suggest the following

1) Create aliases for all existing mozilla.com addresses to mozillians.org
2) Encourage existing mozilla.com users to use their mozillians.org address
3) Send only official mail from mozilla.com and authenticate it
4) Allocate addresses on mozillians.org at will, for whomever you want

In any case, I strongly discourage the decision to create addresses on 
mozilla.org, because typical users will not understand the difference between 
org and com and it will only lead to confusion (see, for example, going to 
http://mozilla.com redirects to mozilla.org).

Thanks,
Monica
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