Unfortunately, those are not just vanity addresses, they are part of a single-signon system that was introduced across the http:// *.openoffice.org web properties. I had no idea that [email protected] was mine (or I quickly forgot) when I registered on the site too many years ago. I didn't realize its significance until I needed that e-mail address to reregister on the re-hosted bugzilla, restoring my connection to those particular issues that were mine, and the particular issues that I am CC:-ed on.
It is easy to dispense with the consequences as if it is merely the abandonment of a vanity forwarding service. And even that has consequences for openoffice.org as an enduring community institution. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 10:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ISSUE] Shut-down of all name@ openoffice.org e-mail addresses On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > There are problems concerning migration of yourname@ openoffice.org, > listname@ > openoffice.org, and servicename@ openoffice.org. Consequently, all > yourname@ > openoffice.org addresses will be shut down when the migration goes into its > final stages sometime in November. > > I don't have a solution. I have an appraisal of the issue. It is something > that requires mutual understanding and, out of our mutual attention, the > prospect of a workable solution. > Dealing with the [email protected] addresses is relatively easy to handle. Since we generally control the underlying service we can simply change the service (or the wiki or website if these are human-generated enails) to send notifications to one of our existing lists. We are doing that, for example with the BZ notifications. [email protected] -- I don't think providing free lifetime personal email forwarding services to non project members is part of the core mission for this project or ASF. A Gmail account is free for the asking. And if someone really wants a project-related vanity address, then apache.org is available to all committers. But I do not accept any obligation for this project to fix a situation caused by bad choices and decisions by those in the past. -Rob
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