On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> On 28-May-2000 James Sutherland wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The addresses people post from are not necessarily the ones which they want to
> get mail from. Or the address in CREDITS/MAINTAINERS may still work via
> forward, but it may not be the most current one.
IOW, the e-mail address may not be correct. That's what I'm looking for...
James.
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