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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Cc: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:19:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201061958.GL11084@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e401c7150e$061da500$6721100a@nuitysystems.com>

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:00:35PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:

> I am curious, what's the point?

Email addresses are for contacting people.

> These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made,  what the author's email addresses
> were at that point.

For historical purposes, you can always use historical kernels.

> It's not MAINTAINERS. If people want to contact someone, go find the latest address there.

It's also MODULE_AUTHOR() and printk() which are far more user-visible 
than MAINTAINERS.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01  5:51 [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses Adrian Bunk
2006-12-01  6:00 ` Hua Zhong
2006-12-01  6:19   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-12-01  6:38     ` Hua Zhong
2006-12-01  9:08   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01  9:21     ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-01  9:26       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 10:59     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-02 21:08       ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-02 21:32         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-02 21:42           ` Alan
2006-12-02 22:07             ` grundig
2006-12-02 22:02           ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-01 20:33     ` Stephen Pollei
2006-12-01 21:40   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-02 21:33     ` Tigran Aivazian

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