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To: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org>
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Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org> writes:

> How does Marcelo (or Linus or Alan, say) know that the patch
> _really_ came from the subsystem aintainer himself?

They could reject patches that came without the maintainers GPG or PGP
signature.
-- 
Hilsen Harald.
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