On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
So worst case you create a new BZ account with a different email address. So what? We don't lose your old issues. You can still find your old issues. How have you personally been harmed? -Rob > 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 >
