On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:36:59 -0700 Mark Wedel <mwe...@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 6/16/23 10:37, Rick Tanner wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > While working on numerous maps, I have noticed that some map > > authors (and/or map editors) included a contact email address in > > the map header. > > > > Nearly all of these addresses are no longer valid. For instance, > > some are University (College) addresses. And, many are from people > > I have not "seen" online in many years. > > > > Given the different methods of communication we now have available > > - IRC, Discord, and the mailing list -- those are the preferred > > ways to reach out to a map author for questions, comments, > > discussion, etc. instead of direct emails to the author. > > > > Does anyone have any concerns in regards to removing the email > > addresses from the map headers? > > > > If there are no issues or concerns, I will take care of updating > > all the maps to remove this content. To give this discussion some > > time, I would look at starting to make this change in 2023-July. > > I was thinking when I just saw the subject 'how many of those > e-mail addresses still work, and even if they do, is anyone looking > at them'. > > I think that with the fact everything is in publicly accessible > source control, people can always use that to see the original > creator (or at least importer) of a given map, as well as who has > modified it recently. That is probably just as useful, if not more > useful, than the info in the map header. > > Even if someone does want the old information, they can always look > for it in the source history (look at the old version when it still > exists). It doesn't matter to me. That said, my e-mail address should still be valid if it is in any of the content I made. Gene -- Mailing List Subscriptions - subscripti...@eracc.org _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com