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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:48:51 -0500
From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Putting full names into MAINTAINER?
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:17:08AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> How about setting (allowing to set) this in ports?
>=20
> MAINTAINER=3D Full Name <email@addr.ess>
>=20
> Rationale:
> - It's friendlier.  People can contact a person rather than a
>   disembodied e-mail address.
> - Sendmail etc will still handle ${MAINTAINER}, so there is no
>   immediate technical reason against it.
>=20
> Some time ago the OpenBSD Project introduced full names for MAINTAINER
> lines.  I didn't think much of it at the time, but since then the
> idea has grown on me.

Sounds good to me.

--=20
wca

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