On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:41:15PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > debian developers should have the option of a uucp account from one > > of the debian servers (trivially easy for us to set up). > > I think we have been over this in various forms, I don't think we can > do it without some complications,
the hardest complication would be coming up with a policy for reasonable use...i.e. defining the rules under which the privilege is available. > it would be inapproriate use of sponsored machines/bandwidth.. why is that? we already have debian developers whose primary email address is @debian.org, and (IIRC) other developers who routinely use smtp over ssh to debian servers to send their mail. > It would be better for someone else to provide a service like this. perhaps so. i think it would probably be a good idea for debian to provide the service, but i'm not going to insist on it. i don't see any problem with debian providing the service for debian developers - at least to enable them to post to debian lists no matter where they are dialed in to, if not as a general purpose service. log files are easily summarised, so it would be possible to send a "cease and desist" message to anyone who abused the privilege (i.e. by sending hundreds of megabytes of mail per day or mail-bombed someone through the uucp service) craig -- craig sanders
