On Mon, 29 May 2000, James Stevenson wrote:
Unfortunately enough, the properly configured mail server does usually have
VRFY disabled...
>
> Hi
>
> i though you would be able to run down the list connect to the mail
> server
> and use the SMTP command VRFY ???
>
> cya
>
> In local.kernel-list, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 28 May 2000, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:19:30PM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 09:16:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> > > > > Coming... yeah right. Identify a few issues that *somebody*
> *is* *not*
> >> > > > > *already* *working* *on*, and I'll see what I can do...
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Things on my list Im sure nobody is tackling right now:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > 1. Check everyone in maintainers/credits actually still
> has a working
> >> > > > address.
> >> > >
> >> > > Hmmm... I could do that if everybody could stand a flood of
> PING-ish mails...
> >> >
> >> > Hrm. I was thinking of something similar, but with a little more
> >> > "optimisation" - I was going to build a script to list all
> MAINTAINERS
> >> > e-mail addresses, then grep the last month or two of linux-kernel
> mail to
> >> > see which have been used recently.
> >>
> >> Why bother? It'd just be a Reply+Send on their part, occupying no
> more than
> >> .5 seconds.
> >>
> >> But I'd probably wait a few days, checking off using my little
> script some
> >> of the common people (e.g., Linus, Alan, Tigran, Peter Anvin, etc.
> to name
> >> very few).
> >>
> >> Should it be just maintainers, or all people with credits?
> >
> >I've just run through the MAINTAINERS file checking the "M:" entries,
> and
> >89 out of the 170 addresses listed haven't been used on linux-kernel
> this
> >month.
> >
> >As a one-off, the time taken for each developer to confirm the address
> is
> >valid is fairly trivial, but with a good enough script, we should be
> able
> >to check most of the addresses fairly frequently. (For example, any
> >address with Demon Internet of the form @user.demon.co.uk can be
> checked
> >by looking for a DNS entry user.demon.co.uk.)
> >
> >Some addresses will always need manual confirmation, of course, but a
> >mostly automated check could be quite useful, IMHO.
> >
> >
> >James.
> >
> >
> >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
> >
> >------------------------------
> >
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