Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

[Jon Smirl]

On 7/28/08, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > On 7/28/08, Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > A later version of this list could separate the valid current
>  > names/addresses from the entries that are fixing typos or that have
>  > old emails. That would improve the validation. But I don't have an
>  > automated way to tell me which alias is the current one. Access to the
>  > current LKML subscriber list would supply the needed info as to which
>  > one to pick.
>
>
> Please dont use LKML subscriptions as the authority of one's preferred
>  email address.

I was only going to use it to help decide which alias was the right
alias, not to generate new entries. In your case it wouldn't help.

>
>  I, for instance, am *only* subscribed to LKML using my gmail account.
>  I prefer that nobody ever email my gmail account directly -- I use my
>  gmail account as a filter -- gmail filters my mails and fwd's specific
>  mails to my other specific email addresses -- I rarely read gmail
>  directly, and I am unlikely to ever read an email addressed to my
>  gmail box.
>
>  I favor my "at linuxtv dot org" account for my kernel work, and I hope
>  that is the email that shows up as primary for me (I would only guess
>  that I have one or two aliases in this .mailmap file.)

You have used four aliases: krufky, infradead, linuxtv, m1k.

>
>  Regards,
>
>  Mike
>


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