On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Tomas Chvatal
I still find your complaint about "suddenly loosing contact" quite moot. If the person won't react in couple of months on request to confirm his/her presence what makes you think such person would react on any other mail sent to that address.
That person once was generous enough to significantly contribute to openSUSE such that s/he was rewarded with the use of a forwarding address with the @openSUSE.org domain name. That person may still be generous enough to respond to a query about a contribution that is now the subject of research. If they don't have that type of time, most Mail User Agent software has the ability to filter to the SPAM bucket anything arriving from a particular address. By the openSUSE project supporting the forwarded address, we allow them to maintain a relationship with openSUSE if THEY wish or cut off that relationship if THEY wish. THEY may appreciate that respectful approach.
Most of the projects actually do the same if they retire somebody.
I'm OK with other projects doing as they choose. I'm just trying to make sure the openSUSE project makes a decision based on all the information available.
Think of it like company email. You get one while you "work" on the thing and if you decide to move on the email changes. Or did any of your former employers let you keep your email.
I separated out the following because it illustrates my point:
Or when I think of it did your university let you keep your student email?
There are many higher level institutions of learning that routinely convert a student's locally served email address to a forwarding address maintained by the alum. They consider this an easy investment in maintaining that student as part of the Alumni (read Donor) community. All those that possess an @openSUSE.org forwarding address were Donors once. Maybe they will be one again if we maintain a respectful appreciation of their efforts.
Also we can be really really nice and actually keep the aliases on autoreply that would say something like "Hello this guy is no longer with us, last known email address is bla@example.com".
Which Michal has reminded us was one of his first proposals. I recognize, however, this will require administrator hours and cpu cycles, perhaps only a few of each, to maintain. So now that the costs of cutting off a communication channel are sufficiently visible, can we get a concurrence from the Infrastructure maintenance personnel that it is not a major burden and the forwarding addresses, at least, will never be discarded? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org