Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Assignee Type -- alias": what kind of 'alias' is that? Message-ID: <4BA2255D.4050704@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100318103941.GA27759@chaos.ukrhub.net> References: <20100318103941.GA27759@chaos.ukrhub.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/03/2010 10:39:41, Taras Korenko wrote: > Hello, freebsd-doc. > There is a word 'alias' mentioned in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.html > (for instance, look for "Table 3. Common Assignees -- base system", last > column). > While it's not explained within the article, could anyone clarify here > what kind of alias is that? Alias to/for what? It's an e-mail alias that expands out to a list of the people who would be interested in the problem. The essential difference between 'alias' and 'mailing list' is that anyone can subscribe to a mailing list at will: modifying an alias needs the good offices of postmaster@... or someone else with appropriate administrative privileges. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuiJV0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzaAACeJbUPKF0DTzXXMB389mQDTDz9 UsUAmwc7Iy/5Jhx0iF+eSlGq/YfWFA0+ =rLfG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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