Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hello Stephen, On Friday 22 May 2009 16:30:03 Stephen Gran wrote: [...] If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Stephen Gran sg...@debian.org [2009-05-22 23:30:03 CEST]: If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail from debian.org

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 22 May 2009 22:30:03 +0100 Stephen Gran sg...@debian.org wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: If this is actually the case, I'd like to close the domain down to only accept mail from other debian.org machines. If it's not, I'd like to work with people who do use it to either make it possible to send their mail from

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
I haven't done an exhaustive survey, but it seems pretty clear so far that the domain does not get any significant amount of legitimate mail from machines other than the debian.org hosts. As I understand it, pkg@packages.d.o is the standard way of contacting the maintainers of a package in an

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 May 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, I always use it to CC the maintainer(s) of a package I reassign a bug to, or if I want to CC a package maintainer on some discussion. For me it's the most natural address to use,

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Millan
Much appreciated. Thanks. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: Hello all, So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries),

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 May 2009, Neil Williams wrote: Maybe a list of packages that do use it and an address to email for those who want to start using it at a later date? That would defeat its purpose. It is not about which maintainers use it, but about who uses it to contact maintainers. Cheers, FJP

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 22, Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com wrote: @packages.d.o is known to be the easiest way to get in touch with a maintainer, and is often used when CC'ing maintainers of multiple packages. Then it needs to be fixed, soon, because it the last few weeks I started receiving a huge

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Wiltshire said: The debian-l10n-english team, and perhaps others, use this domain to keep the maintainer in the loop during Smith English-language reviews and the subsequent translations. This one time, at band camp, Adeodato Simó said: I use it all the

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen Gran wrote: So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines (primarily ries), and about 1000 spams a day from elsewhere. I haven't done an exhaustive survey,

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to packages.debian.org, and it looks like it collects some useful mail from automated scripts on various debian.org machines

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joey Hess said: Some packages even emit it at runtime: Other packages, including reportbug --kudos, BUGBASH, and debconf-updatepo directly send mail there. Good to know. Anyway, this feels like it may be a false optimisation to me. You know that p,d.o gets