Re: Commit emails to -committers

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Commit emails to -committers
Date: 2021-08-20 13:30:12
Message-ID: 1851533.1629466212@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On 19.08.21 21:59, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> One thing I don't like is the proposed From:. Setting things that way
>>> sometimes causes people's MUAs to record the given address to the
>>> person's name -- and I'm sure both parties would be upset if they sent
>>> email to Stephen Frost and it ended up delivered to
>>> noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)

> I have gotten email from
> Stephen Frost <notifications(at)github(dot)com>
> so it seems it's accepted in other parts to do it this way.

I wouldn't be surprised if Stephen is objecting precisely because of
unpleasant experience with that github "feature".

(My wife constantly complains about how Apple Mail will try to
auto-complete To: with random addresses it finds somewhere in her
mail folder, so I can believe there's a real issue there.)

regards, tom lane

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