Re: Can any of you identify the following people by email address?

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:53:26 PM PDT Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 24.10.2017 um 23:22 schrieb Eric S. Raymond:
> > Can any of you identify the following people by email address?
> > 
> > laboratoryman = Laboratory Man <lab...@us...>
> > pudh4418 = Unknown User <pud...@us...>
> > dcb314 = Unknown User <dc...@us...>
> > wtf3 = Unknown User <wt...@us...>
> > ceprio = Unknown User <ce...@us...>
> > 
> > These addresses appear in ChangeLog files without a human name
> > attached.
> 
> wtf3 is, apparently, a typo in the ChangeLog entry.  That's supposed to
> be "wrf3".
> 
> These are all actual SourceForge user account names, usually from Bugs
> or Patches trackers, so they are supposed to be reachable, if not
> directly at those mail addresses, then via their SourceForge accounts
> pages' "Send Message" feature.  But we should pick _one_ of us to
> contact them that way.  Ethan?

I nominate Dan :-)
 
> They have decided not to publish a clear name on those user profile
> pages, though, so I guess it's safe to assume they won't want one shown
> in our git log, either.  They may have only gotten an SF.net account to
> post those entries, as for most of the time we had to keep our trackers
> restricted to logged-in users.  SPAM, SPAM, lovely SPAM...

Indeed.  But arguably if xxx can be contacted via an sf.net address to
ask who they really are, that by itself demonstrates that  xx...@us... 
is a real contact address.  If that's what they want to use - let them. 

	Ethan