idea for header filter sources.redhat.com -> sourceware.org

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:17:31PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>jifl wrote:
>> [...]  RH rightly deserve their due credit.
>
>I'm not requesting any new overt explicit gratuities, merely the
>status quo.

Just to be clear, this is the status quo:

  % cd /qmail; cat lists*/*/outhost | sort -u
  cygwin.com
  ecos.sourceware.org
  gcc.gnu.org
  sources.redhat.com
  sourceware.org

>>But I've certainly talked to people who think RH own or manage some of
>>the projects on here, or are responsible for its operation or
>>maintenance.
>
>Surely they did not get such ideas from the presence of
>"sources.redhat.com" within Received: headers in their email.

The system hasn't announced itself in Received headers as
"sources.redhat.com" for some time.  However, when it did, IIRC, RMS did
complain about the sources.redhat.com in the Received lines.

And, there are certainly people who complain to postmaster@redhat.com
when they have problems sending email to sources.redhat.com.

However, given your premise that people won't be coming to the
conclusion that Red Hat manages the system just because they saw
"redhat.com" in the headers, it seems like you think the headers aren't
all that important so one would have to wonder why you would object to
changing them.

(I don't know if I have to say this or not, but I'm not doing this because
I'm "anti-Red Hat".  I thought this was a good idea when I was working
at Red Hat, too.)

I find this resistance odd in that I'm essentially volunteering to take
on more work for myself both in the implementation and in the answering
of postmaster email -- at least until the super duper new system arrives
in March or April.

Or do you know that the deployment of a new system is imminent?

cgf