[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 1, PEP Purpose and Guidelines
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:14:56 +1200 (NZST)
> Originally we thought it was more important to
> be able to contact the author, but there are quite a few reasons to
> revise this intention. As pointed out, email addresses change. Also,
> experience has shown that most of the discussions about PEPs are
> conducted on the public forums (mailing lists / newsgroups), so that's
> a fine way to contact the people working on the PEP. And of course,
> we allow the PEP authors to obfuscate or omit their email addresses
> altogether.
Why not have *two* fields in the PEP, one for the real
name, and the other for an email address?
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