On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 4:41 PM Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > > > > For email addresses, I think that using @gcc.gnu.org would be the best > > > approach for people that have such accounts, rather than an employer > > > address from an arbitrary point in time. > > > > Or @gnu.org for accounts that pre-date the switch to EGCS and CVS. > > When were such addresses introduced? I'm not sure if all the gcc2 > committers would have had them, or only @<some-machine>.ai.mit.edu if > that's where the repository was (certainly many early ChangeLog entries > tend to use the <some-machine>.ai.mit.edu form, if not just > <some-machine>).
I got a @gnu.org account around 1990 or 1991, and I was hardly the first, so they were introduced some time before then. Ian
