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 [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 machines or

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

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 22 May 2009 22:30:03 +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?

2009-05-22 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 debia

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, @packages.d.o is the standard way of contacting the maintainers of a package in an e

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 ri

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 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 quantity of trivially

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 th

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 (primar

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 get