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.
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