Comment 7 for bug 56538

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 10:17 +0000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> As far as mails to the -changes lists go, we've always used the
> uploader's email address as the sending address, as we view it more as a
> forwarding list, rather than a generated mail. You're uploading the
> .changes, then it's forwarded to -changes, essentially unaltered, as if
> you'd written the mail in the first place and sent it to the list.
>
> This is pretty useful when reading the -changes list archives, so we can
> see at a glance who uploaded what, without seeing a bunch of useless
> mails from "Ubuntu Installer", and it's also quite handy to be able to
> just smack Reply and tell off an uploader for a particularly silly
> upload they've just made, or what-have-you.
>
> Now, one could argue that these mails need to be sent twice, with two
> different submitters, so you, the uploader, get a mail in your inbox
> from "Ubuntu Installer" telling you that your upload was accepted, while
> the -changes mailing list gets a mail from you with the contents of the
> .changes. Of course, I think this is more or less how it's done now,
> modulo a few buggy behaviours.

Its a good usecase - making the uploaders easy to see.

Just speculating here - did you consider
From: Ubuntu Installer <email address hidden>
Subject: Robert Collins <robert...> - package-version-arch

?

The reason I'm arguing against having any mail sent that proports to be
from me but isn't is that all my mail is gpg signed - mail with my name
on it but not signed by me should set of warning bells for anyone
reading it.

-Rob
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GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.