linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

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Message-ID: <20061202214213.2188bced@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:42:13 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:32:00 +0100 Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:

> as I explained with my email address as an example, email addresses 
> aren't suitable for this.

I disagree. They can be very useful for tracking people down, and also
for finding information as the email address (old or otherwise) is a
great search key for info on a driver in mailing lists.
 
> Even the "please contact the author" and the printk() should continue to 
> contain known bouncing addresses?

Possibly not.
 
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