Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Dave Fisher<[email protected]> wrote:
(2) openoffice.org registered users.
Should we have a way to maintain openoffice.org email aliases? Who do we do
this for?
Yes Dave, it is important to save those aliases. On the users side, the
@openoffice.org e-mail addresses were a little but nice strategic
element in community building. On the practical side, the
@openoffice.org alias was/is used as the username in Bugzilla, in other
sites belonging to the OpenOffice.org infrastructure (QATrack and at
least one of Templates and Extensions); password recovery messages and
Bugzilla notifications are sent to those aliases.
Of course, this could be fixed by scripting, but it might be (but I
couldn't check the real code) that some services rely on the identity
"e-mail address for user USERNAME = [email protected]"; and these
would be broken.
The problem we're going to run into is that there are both official
openoffice.org email addresses, like [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]. And then there are user
accounts at the same domain, given out rather freely.
This remark by Rob Weir is absolutely true, unfortunately. And what's
worse is that, as far as I know, there is no way to discriminate between
"official" and "personal" addresses. Several years ago, the Italian N-L
project created an alias [email protected] (means "schools") for a
-never properly launched- project about OpenOffice.org in Italian
schools. And this was registered by merely "squatting" a free address
since we knew no way to officially reserve an alias, and I suspect that
the other "official" aliases you list could have been registered this
way as well.
Regards,
Andrea.
