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

2009-05-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 22 May 2009, 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

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

2009-05-23 Thread Bill Allombert
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), and about 1000 spams a day

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

2009-05-23 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
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?

2009-05-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: What about requiring a GPG signed email by key in developers or maintainers keyring? As others have already mentioned, the addresses are also intended as contact point for upstream developers and users, i.e. people who don't have such a key.

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

2009-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Stephen Gran wrote: It sounds like the service should probably stay open. I would have been happy to restrict something that is only a spam attractor, but if it's more than that, than I'm happy people find it a useful service. If the teams who do use it think it can still be useful and be

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

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Stephen Gran wrote: 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

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

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
Stephen Gran sg...@debian.org wrote: day from elsewhere. 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. If this is actually the case, I'd like to

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

2009-05-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I use b...@packages.debian.org to contact the maintainer of blah. I use this to alert maintainers of reverse build-deps when I do something drastic to one of the libraries I maintain. I'm open to other options, of course. What is the recommended practice for this scenario? Thanks, -Steve