Re: [RFC] git-contacts: exclude list

From: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Date: Apr 3, 2024, 12:13 UTC
Message-ID: <33782130-d4d4-43e7-8688-871a1134121e@matthieu-moy.fr>
In-Reply-To: <ac044ecd116d4491b5f6cdddc0266486@SAMBXP02.univ-lyon1.fr>

On 4/3/24 12:11, Matthias Aßhauer wrote:

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> On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, Matthias Aßhauer wrote:
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> After sending my previous message I've noticed that all of the etu.univ-lyon1.fr recipients bounced with the
> message
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>> 550 5.5.0 Requested actions not taken as the mailbox is unavailable
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> After running etu.univ-lyon1.fr&through a machine translation
> service it seems like that subdomain is used for mailboxes of current
> students,

Indeed. These are former students, who contributed to Git under my supervision (as teacher in the same university). I don't have their current email address.

> Would it make sense to have a way to teach `git-contacts` to exclude a
> user defined list of known-bad recipient adresses? This could potentiallly
> be an extension of mailmap or a separate file.

Sounds like a good idea, yes. At least, the current thread would be a good use-case for such feature.

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Matthieu Moy