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

> From: Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>,  [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:26:10 +0200
> 
> 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.

Would you and others please drop this subject, or take it to some
other forum?  It is off-topic here.

It is okay to point out that someone's email address might mislead,
but once you've made that abundantly clear, keeping this "discussion"
becomes a kind of harassment, and that's not acceptable here.  So
please stop.  TIA.