[crossfire] Remove or keep contact email addresses from map headers?

[Ruben Safir]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:08:25PM -0800, Poof wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:36:59 -0700
> Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 6/16/23 10:37, Rick Tanner wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > While working on numerous maps, I have noticed that some map
> > > authors (and/or map editors) included a contact email address in
> > > the map header.
> > > 
> > > Nearly all of these addresses are no longer valid. For instance,
> > > some are University (College) addresses. And, many are from people
> > > I have not "seen" online in many years.
> > > 
> > > Given the different methods of communication we now have available
> > > - IRC, Discord, and the mailing list -- those are the preferred
> > > ways to reach out to a map author for questions, comments,
> > > discussion, etc. instead of direct emails to the author.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any concerns in regards to removing the email
> > > addresses from the map headers?
> > > 
> > > If there are no issues or concerns, I will take care of updating
> > > all the maps to remove this content. To give this discussion some
> > > time, I would look at starting to make this change in 2023-July.  
> > 
> >   I was thinking when I just saw the subject 'how many of those
> > e-mail addresses still work, and even if they do, is anyone looking
> > at them'.
> > 
> >   I think that with the fact everything is in publicly accessible
> > source control, people can always use that to see the original
> > creator (or at least importer) of a given map, as well as who has
> > modified it recently.  That is probably just as useful, if not more
> > useful, than the info in the map header.
> > 
> >   Even if someone does want the old information, they can always look
> > for it in the source history (look at the old version when it still
> > exists).
> 
> It doesn't matter to me. That said, my e-mail address should still be valid if it is in any of the content I made.
> 
> Gene


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