Re: Posting from work/university addresses

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:07:43PM -0500, Anmol P. Paralkar wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Jim Blandy wrote:
>>I've noticed a number of posters to the GDB lists recently who I'd
>>guess were professionals working on real-world stuff, but coming from
>>gmail/yahoo/hotmail accounts instead of work or university addresses.
>>From various other cues I'd guess they were from countries with growing
>>technology industries, like China, India, or Russia.
>>
>>I'm curious --- is there some reason people avoid posting to the GDB
>>mailing lists from their work/uni addresses?
>
>In the case of work address: Some companies require inclusion
>of/automatically include a disclaimer notice at the end of the message
>and sometimes it's against list policy to post messages with such
>disclaimers in them.  So e.g.  in the gcc list, such posters are kindly
>advised to use a free account like in:
>
>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-07/msg00732.html
>
>(Not that the advice is always heeded).

This will soon no longer be optional as I've been asked to start bouncing
messages which contain disclaimers.  I'm testing the code to do this now.

cgf