Hi
i though you would be able to run down the list connect to the mail server
and use the SMTP command VRFY ???
cya
In local.kernel-list, you wrote:
>On Sun, 28 May 2000, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
>> On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:19:30PM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
>> > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Kenneth C. Arnold wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 09:16:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > > > > Coming... yeah right. Identify a few issues that *somebody* *is* *not*
>> > > > > *already* *working* *on*, and I'll see what I can do...
>> > > >
>> > > > Things on my list Im sure nobody is tackling right now:
>> > > >
>> > > > 1. Check everyone in maintainers/credits actually still has a working
>> > > > address.
>> > >
>> > > Hmmm... I could do that if everybody could stand a flood of PING-ish mails...
>> >
>> > Hrm. I was thinking of something similar, but with a little more
>> > "optimisation" - I was going to build a script to list all MAINTAINERS
>> > e-mail addresses, then grep the last month or two of linux-kernel mail to
>> > see which have been used recently.
>>
>> Why bother? It'd just be a Reply+Send on their part, occupying no more than
>> .5 seconds.
>>
>> But I'd probably wait a few days, checking off using my little script some
>> of the common people (e.g., Linus, Alan, Tigran, Peter Anvin, etc. to name
>> very few).
>>
>> Should it be just maintainers, or all people with credits?
>
>I've just run through the MAINTAINERS file checking the "M:" entries, and
>89 out of the 170 addresses listed haven't been used on linux-kernel this
>month.
>
>As a one-off, the time taken for each developer to confirm the address is
>valid is fairly trivial, but with a good enough script, we should be able
>to check most of the addresses fairly frequently. (For example, any
>address with Demon Internet of the form @user.demon.co.uk can be checked
>by looking for a DNS entry user.demon.co.uk.)
>
>Some addresses will always need manual confirmation, of course, but a
>mostly automated check could be quite useful, IMHO.
>
>
>James.
>
>
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