Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:32:00 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses
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On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:08:56PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi Adrian,

Hi Tigran,

> I have only now had time to read your patch and reject most of it --- the 
> email addresses in the revision histories etc are for historical purposes 
> and as such are very useful. They are NOT meant to be valid except at the 
> moment of time when they are written. The only purpose of email address in 
> the revision history is the indication where the person worked _at the 
> time_.

as I explained with my email address as an example, email addresses 
aren't suitable for this.

> The only bits that should be made sure to remain valid are the 
> MODULE_AUTHOR, as Arjan also mentioned.

Even the "please contact the author" and the printk() should continue to 
contain known bouncing addresses?

> Also, it is very strange that I have _not_ received your original email 
> containing the patch --- I only saw it now via lkml archive.

I haven't yet gotten a bounce from tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk.

Do you have a spamfilter?
Or a provider doing some kind of email filtering?

> Kind regards
> Tigran

cu
Adrian

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