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[Thomas Abthorpe]

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On January 21, 2009 09:08:43 am N.J. Mann wrote:
> >             <para>In particular, ports shown as maintained by
> > -             <email role="nolink">freebsd-ports at FreeBSD.org</email> are
> > +             <email role="nolink">ports at FreeBSD.org</email> are
>
> Are you aware that, according to
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo it is freebsd-ports@ .
> Similarly, the List-Post header included in all mail distributed by said
> list is:  List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports at freebsd.org>
>
> I am not suggesting that your change is wrong, just that I feel there
> should be some consistency in this.  Perhaps that is what you are trying
> to achieve?
>
>
> Cheers,
>        Nick.

Hi Nick.

That is the essence of it, while the the mailing list indeed is 
freebsd-ports@, it is also aliased as ports at . The convention in the ports 
tree is to hook unmaintained ports with the email adress of ports@, ergo the 
rationale to change the the one address.


Thomas

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