Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:46:08 +0530
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module
	documentation?
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-docs@postgreSQL.org
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Tom,

> If we do want to keep credits in the SGML pages, how extensive should
> they be?  I already took it on myself to remove Gene Selkov's snailmail
> address, but do we even want email addresses there?  A lot of them are
> probably dead, and the ones that aren't are causing their owners to get
> extra spam, because an <email> link is about the easiest thing to scrape
> from a webpage that there could possibly be.

Historically, the only way to troubleshoot some of the contrib modules 
was to e-mail the author.  If people think that we've reached a standard 
that everything in /contrib is now well-documented and supported by the 
general community, the I suppose we don't need contact information.  I'm 
not so sure myself.

--Josh