From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 13:06:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A0831065703 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BD28FC0A for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2ID6b90034058 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:37 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BA2255D.4050704@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20100318103941.GA27759@chaos.ukrhub.net> In-Reply-To: <20100318103941.GA27759@chaos.ukrhub.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: "Assignee Type -- alias": what kind of 'alias' is that? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:43 -0000 -----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-----