Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Craig Small:

 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
 I wonder if this is the result of corporate pressure, or if this is
 somehow encouraged by the de-facto list policy.

 You'll never find me using a corporate address. The IP and surveilence
 rules are just plain crazy these days and I'd rather have all my Debian
 or other Free Software email go to a nice sensible mutt reader than get
 tangled into the corporate exchange servers. In fact, my corporate email
 address has no hits in google.

To clarify I bit, I was talking about using corporate addresses for
dealing with corporate matters (i.e., when we use Debian at work).
Those rules you refer to do not magically go away just because you use
your personal mail account or some anonymous web mail service.


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Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
 This is mostly an etiquette question, and I'm not sure if this is the
 right mailing list to post to.

It is an interesting topic.

As a freelance consultant, my personal mail domain is the only
domain that is going to stay. I have been working in more than ten
places since I registered Zugschlus.de. Also, as a matter of privacy
for my clients, I tend to use zugschlus.de as a mail address even when
dealing with an issue that happened to surface at my current work place.

Greetings
Marc

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Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray:

 At least as I understand it (IANAL), English business emails should
 contain a signature with extended contact information (thanks to the
 Business Names Act, Companies Act, Distance Selling Regs and some
 other stuff that covers the gaps).

That stems from a European directive on business letters, so it's a
concern in Germany as well.  The downside is that once you add such
information to email, you might turn it into a business letter, which
creates other issues (people need to be properly authorized to make
such communication on the company's behalf, you need to arrange for
long-term archival c c).  That's why adding such a footer is
somewhat controversial.

 That went on a bit too long.  Why do you ask?

I was just curious about proper etiquette.  I'm still a bit worried
that corporatelessness is implicitly requested by the community.
Personally, I wouldn't want to see people using corporate mail on
official announcement lists, and I suspect many of us feel similar,
but it's not clear to me that this policy extends to other lists.


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Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011, Florian Weimer wrote:
 I was just curious about proper etiquette.  I'm still a bit worried
 that corporatelessness is implicitly requested by the community.

I dont think corporatelessness in email addresses is requested by anyone.


cheers,
Holger


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