Re: Urgent: Please add disclaimer that I am not a cartoon tiger

Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes:

>> FWIW, `[email protected]` sounds to me like the email address not of
>> a person but of some "role" or "service" (like `[email protected]` or
>> `[email protected]`), whereas `[email protected]` sounds to me like
>> the (potentially "anonymous") address of a person (of course, maybe it's
>> a bot posing as a person).
>
> And [email protected] was initially intended as a voluntary service to
> send bugs on GNU software.

Unfortunately, that doesn't make it less confusing; in fact, it may make
it more confusing, because using an unmodified name implies an
officialdom of sorts.

Consider, for instance, what Cygnus Support did for their name.  This
seems to be a much better model.

Providing a clarification was appropriate, given that the original
poster was not someone familiar with you.

The comparison with the "cartoon tiger" is a bit ridiculous, given that
this isn't a forum for said cartoon tiger, but it is a GNU forum for a
GNU editor, where GNU bugs are discussed.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović
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