On 07/06/2019 00:50, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 4:41 PM Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: >> >>>> For email addresses, I think that using @gcc.gnu.org would be the best >>>> approach for people that have such accounts, rather than an employer >>>> address from an arbitrary point in time. >>> >>> Or @gnu.org for accounts that pre-date the switch to EGCS and CVS. >> >> When were such addresses introduced? I'm not sure if all the gcc2 >> committers would have had them, or only @<some-machine>.ai.mit.edu if >> that's where the repository was (certainly many early ChangeLog entries >> tend to use the <some-machine>.ai.mit.edu form, if not just >> <some-machine>). > > I got a @gnu.org account around 1990 or 1991, and I was hardly the > first, so they were introduced some time before then. > > Ian >
Well, according to CVS, the only accounts to make commits to GCC before the end of 1990 are mycroft rms roland And if you go to the end of 1991, it only adds meissner kenner dennisg wood tiemann wilson jrv so it wouldn't be a major job to special case those if really necessary. I would imagine that gnu.org inherited the majority of user names from prep when the domain was split off, so the precise dates probably don't matter to much. R.
