On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:58:57PM -0400, Ben Konrath wrote: > > > The Email address is intended to used to pull in account information > > > from mugshot so using username@localhost wouldn't really work. > > My point is: how is the user presented with that form supposed to guess > > that? Mugshot integration sounds like a cool idea -- but why not present it > > as that? > Good point. But since there are other uses for the email address (think > any application that asks for the users email address), it's best to > just keep it generic. Ouch. I don't *want* to provide a working e-mail address to any application that generically asks. And I don't think I'm the only one who's sensitive to this. Anyway, from an old school Unix perspective it just feels weird to ask it the way you are, because e-mail address is exactly equal to username@hostname. But overall I'm with you on this. It's useful to have an external e-mail address. In fact, I'd like to see an option on this screen to automatically alias the root e-mail address to the given address. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
