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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 463 kernel developers missing!
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:00:13PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Other people aren't perfect, I've found over 1,000 typos in the those
> names and emails. We need a validation mechanism.
> 

You keep using the word "need"; I do not think it means what you think
it does.  :-)

Seriously, why is it so important?  It's a nice to have, and I
recognize that you've spent a bunch of time on it.  But if the goal is
to get better statistics, and in exchange we forcibly map all Mark
Browns to one e-mail address, and/or force them to all adopt middle
initials (what if there are two Dan Smith's that don't have middle
initials) just for the convenience of your statistics gathering, I
would gently suggest to you that you've forgotten which is the tail,
and which is the dog.

Regards,

						- Ted
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