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Re: Removing email addresses for projects

 

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:09:07PM +0100, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Åsmund Ødegård wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Dec 20, 2007 9:55 PM, Johan Hoffman <jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >     No problem removing the addresses for me.
> > 
> >     /Johan
> > 
> >     > I have already blocked them from my mail, so I am for it.
> >     >
> >     >   Thanks,
> >     >
> >     >     Matt
> >     >
> >     > On Dec 20, 2007 2:18 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     >> There's an awful lot of spam coming in on the various email addresses
> >     >> on fenics.org (like fenics@xxxxxxxxxx, dolfin@xxxxxxxxxx etc) and the
> >     >> few times it's not spam, we usually reply and ask the sender to use the
> >     >> mailing list instead (like fenics-dev, dolfin-dev etc).
> >     >>
> >     >> Therefore, I suggest we just remove the foo@xxxxxxxxxx addresses for
> >     >> all projects (or rather direct them to /dev/null for technical
> >     >> reasons) and put up an appropriate notice on the web page.
> >     >>
> >     >> Comments/objections?
> >     >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have updated the mailaliases now such that mail to fenics, dolfin, puffin,
> > ferari, ffc, sieve goes stright into /dev/null
> > 
> > If you want me to fix other projects as well (ko, fiat, ufc, syfi, instant,
> > viper, meshbuilder, deb), please tell me; I don't know whether some of the
> > other aliases are used as ad-hoc maillists or not.
> 
> Very good. I think we can remove the rest also. It's easier to
> announce that we remove all addresses instead of just a few. Since no
> one has objected, let's remove them...
> 
> Merry Christmas

ok, it's done.

All emails to foo@xxxxxxxxxx goes to /dev/null if not "-dev" in foo.

-- 
Anders


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