[SAC] OSGeo Email Aliases

[Jason Birch]

Personally, I don't think that these aliases should be available to anyone other than directors/officers of the foundation.
 
If we want to take on the liability of providing email services at some point in the future, it should be using a host, like username at members.osgeo.org
 
Jason

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From: sac-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Tyler Mitchell
Sent: Thu 2007-01-11 10:00 AM
To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo
Subject: [SAC] OSGeo Email Aliases

I would like to propose that SAC develop a policy (doesn't have to be 
complex!) for giving out @osgeo.org email aliases.  For background, 
the previous www.osgeo.org portal automatically gave *any* registered 
site user an email alias.  I remember being quite surprised to find 
that any anonymous person could sign up as a user and instantly have 
the benefit of appearing to represent OSGeo in some way.  
Fortunately, I do not think that many people knew about this feature.

During the migration we had no way to know who was using their 
alias.  So anyone who wants to use or keep using their alias has had 
to request that it be re-created.  Shawn, Frank and I have added 
some.  But when new ones are needed, what kind of filter should they 
be going through?  Should they be reserved for chairs, officers, etc 
or made available to all active members?

The only problem I see, is that we have no policy on how they should 
(or should not be used) and we have no current way of identifying who 
an 'active member' is.

Perhaps this just underscores the need to get a membership management 
application set up?

Tyler
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