Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-28 Thread Manish Singh
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:36:09PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 13:07 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: So another idea is to persuade Shawn to move everything gimp.org to another server (perhaps somewhere in gnome.org/RedHat's colo to take advantage of their sysadmin

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Manish Singh a écrit : I think policing it at all is silly. That's unacceptable. And it's not your decision to make. One really should evaluate emails on the actual *content*, and not what the From address says. There are several active contributors who do not use gimp.org addresses,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi Yosh, On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 01:50 -0700, Manish Singh wrote: One really should evaluate emails on the actual *content*, and not what the From address says. There are several active contributors who do not use gimp.org addresses, assuming their comments should have less weight is rather

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:31:56PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: I am not really willing to ignore this issue any longer. I have had several reports from people who received mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that can be described as very irritating, to say the least. I think that we can not any

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-28 Thread Tim Jedlicka
On 9/28/06, Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't get where the expectation that postings from gimp.org addressesshould be considered as anything but the individual _expression_ of theauthor. Expecting a volunteer organization to have a rigid public face is ridiculous.When I initially

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi Dave, On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:15 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: cheekyWe could rename the GIMP to something else like GNU masterstroke That was probably the most stupid direction that you could have steered this discussion into. Thanks for ruining an effort to actually discuss a problem that we

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-27 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sven, Sven Neumann a écrit : That was probably the most stupid direction that you could have steered this discussion into. Thanks for ruining an effort to actually discuss a problem that we seem unable to deal with. Right - because otherwise we would surely have dealt with the problem.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-27 Thread Dave Neary
Following up to myself, with a minor correction: Dave Neary a écrit : But that would need the domain owner (yosh) to make the change, and that's not going to happen soon. The domain is owned by Shawn Amundson (snorfle), but he hasn't been involved in the GIMP for a long time and yosh is the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 13:07 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: So another idea is to persuade Shawn to move everything gimp.org to another server (perhaps somewhere in gnome.org/RedHat's colo to take advantage of their sysadmin team?), update the DNS records and move on with our lives with new

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-26 Thread gg
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:37:02 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point here is that Carol is continuously abusing her email address. I have asked her several times not to use it any longer but she ignored this request and continues to send mails as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm amazed

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-26 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Today GIMP for Windows is in the fifth place among the most downloaded applications from sourceforge.net. So Gimp is a real brand name ;). That way, gimp.org would become an irrelevant historical artifact. And one of the most common complaints from our American users (for whom the GIMP means

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Are @gimp.org aliases needed at all?

2006-09-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it is useful to have project adresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or whatever to know you are dealing with core member of the project. Do I really know this from the mail address? Especially for a large company like redhat, mail adresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED]