Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

[Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:38 -0600, Brian Harring wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:16:06AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote:
> > Is there a possibility to have each 'type' of staff have there own
> > subdomain. ie.  @testers.g.o for at/ht
> > 		@docs.g.o for document persons
> > 		@infra.g.o for infrastucture
> > 		etc...
> > 		@staff.g.o for non-specific staff
> > 		@g.o for devs
> No (and hopefully this email finally kills this line of thought off :)
> 

Dead in my line of thinking

> fex, for me
> ferringb@g.o
> ferringb@portage.g.o
> ferringb@infra.g.o (portage infra crap plus distfiles)
> ferringb@(recruiters|devrel).g.o (recruiters)
> 
> for solar
> solar@g.o
> solar@infra.g.o
> solar@council.g.o
> solar@docs.g.o
> solar@hardened.g.o
> solar@x86.g.o
> 
> Etc.  I'm naming subdomains off the top of my head to match 
> high level grouping, but it should be clear this isn't a tenuable 
> path to take both for devs, and for harassing infra with alias requests.
> 
> > Further, have an alias from @g.o to @<subdomain>.g.o, with an email
> > returned to the sender if the subdomain is incorrect.
> 
> Aliasing sucks due to the need to remove the alias after a role 
> changes- if I stop doing recruiting, that alias now needs to be 
> disabled.  Either you bounce the email, or you leave the alias in 
> place- either solution sucks if you're trying to do subdomains and 
> have them actually mean something.
> 
> This also is not even remotely getting into the question of 
> segregating gentoo peeps, something I dislike.
> 
> It's just not a good way to manage things with people changing roles, 
> nor does the subdomain addition really mean anything imo- if I had all 
> of those aliases, I'd still send from ferringb@g.o.  Can't tell what 
> the hell I do based upon the from, still would have to resort to doing 
> some digging...
> 
> ~harring
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