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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:00:35PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:

> I am curious, what's the point?

Email addresses are for contacting people.

> These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made, what the author's email addresses
> were at that point.

For historical purposes, you can always use historical kernels.

> It's not MAINTAINERS. If people want to contact someone, go find the latest address there.

It's also MODULE_AUTHOR() and printk() which are far more user-visible
than MAINTAINERS.

cu
Adrian

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