On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 06:56:25AM +0100, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
I would have to agree - leave the e-mail forwarder in place, and the IRC cloak (though I'm with Christian - I've been waiting for several years for my IRC cloak to be set up, but I'm not on IRC that much anyways, so that bothers me a lot less). Breaking an e-mail address that people might use just because they don't care to vote seems excessive.
It is not because they don't care to vote, it is because we haven't seen any activity from them and they did not react to warnings that they will loose it. AFAIK domain registrators does it in similar manner. They send you few email-s and if you don't react, you loose the e-mail. We can send several mails as well.
I'm afraid you miss an important point: completely breaking an address that might appear on many places (forums, mailing list archives, git repositories, package changelogs, ...) is going to hit not only those inactive members (You want to "punish" them? No problem with that.) but potentially everyone else as well (and I do have problem with that). I often find an e-mail address at a few year old commit or a changelog entry and need to contact the author. So I agree that what you proposed would in fact discourage members from actively using the address unless they believe they are going to be active members forever (which, honestly, would mean they are not very realistic]. For domain registrators and commercial e-mail services, this kind of behaviour can be understood. But with opensuse.org, few hundreds of addresses and (IMHO) no extensive traffic? I agree that it's far from necessary. How about a compromise? Some MUA implement a feature that they can reject an e-mail for certain account but send a message like "user ... is no longer active, please use address ... instead" to the sender. And even if they don't, it can be trivially implemented in procmail or similar. I believe this would allow you to make the point but would still allow others to contact those "retired members" (as long as the other address works but that's SEP). Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org