On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm concerned that we are still conflating two different problems. > > 1. One has to do with [email protected] where this is a personal > forwarding set up for some user (or entity) and it forwards to another e-mail > address. If these are preserved, forwarding them to some other email address > to then be forwarded to the original entity does not make a lot of sense. > The issue here is that the entity is known by that email address and has > connections that access that entity by that email address. > It is a good idea to preserve that service so that the entities that have > use of the individual ones can somehow manage their forwarding. I would not > want to figure out how to retire it until later, and with considerable > warning. Having an individual's e-mail address disappear is not a pleasant > experience. >
I agree that it is very convenient to have a permanent email forwarding service provided at no cost by a third party. But I'm not seeing how this fits within the ASF's organizational mission. How does this help us develop and publish open source software? -Rob
