"Assignee Type -- alias": what kind of 'alias' is that?

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 18/03/2010 10:39:41, Taras Korenko wrote:
>   Hello, freebsd-doc.
>   There is a word 'alias' mentioned in
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.html
> (for instance, look for "Table 3. Common Assignees -- base system", last
> column).
>   While it's not explained within the article, could anyone clarify here
> what kind of alias is that? Alias to/for what?

It's an e-mail alias that expands out to a list of the people who would
be interested in the problem.  The essential difference between 'alias'
and 'mailing list' is that anyone can subscribe to a mailing list at
will: modifying an alias needs the good offices of postmaster at ... or
someone else with appropriate administrative privileges.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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