On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:39:17PM +1100, Sam Johnston wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > That the Debian Machine Usage Policies[1] (DMUP) be amended as follows: > > 1. That the Mail/News section be modified to read: > > Using Debian machines for reading mail is OK, please choose a lightly > loaded machine [ie not master]. We do not support the use of mail download > methods such as POP or IMAP, use your ISP's mail server and forwarding. > Incoming mail is to be used only for tasks related to Debian or to packages > in the Debian archive (including those for which an ITP has been filed). > The DSA's may find it necessary to compress, relocate or erase mail without > warning. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This provides a clear definition of what I consider acceptable use of > @debian.org addresses.
I think the main problem of the DMUP WRT @d.o is the sole coverage of *incoming* mail, thus stating (at least to me) that it's more about being bandwidth-aware than being concious about the outward appereance. For example, I don't route *outgoing* mails I sent with [EMAIL PROTECTED] through a debian.org machine, I just change From: in mutt and keep the envelope as [EMAIL PROTECTED], sending it via mail.gmx.net. So while it is not really "outgoing" mail from the perspective of the debian.org machines, it is so from the perspective of the one recieving it. Furthermore, I believe that "outgoing" @d.o mail is a bigger problem than incoming mail, because that's when you actually appear as a DD to (at least a subset of) the internet. I don't care so much whether DDs get non-related @d.o incoming mail (and with all the SPAM around, you cannot really evade it, although one should make an effort to not spread it more widely for the communication channels one can control), but I believe DDs should limit their From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] header to Debian related activities and the big majority of the project seems to agree with me. So, either the above should be generalized to all (i.e. incoming and "outgoing") mail traffic, or we should just limit the mail-usage to 'common sense', at which point including it into the developers-reference seems to make more sense to me. Hmm, perhaps I should repost the results of the strawpoll with a new subject, so that it does not get lost in the threads... Michael
