regex based groups and email address changing

[Daniel Berlin]

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 12:31  PM, Joel Peshkin wrote:

> Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>> I have user groups based on regexes (like *.gcc.gnu.org)
>> If people change their email address, so that it doesn't match the 
>> regex anymore, are they auto-added to the approriate groups they used 
>> to be part of?
>> I've never seen a bug about it, so I assume they are, but i figured 
>> whoever implemented email address changing is on this list, and would 
>> know.
>>
>> --Dan
>
>
> For group regexps applied in 2.16.* and prior, the regexp only applies 
> when an account is initially created and is then indistinguishable 
> from an explicitly granted group permission.  For 2.17 and on, the 
> group regexps are applied continuously so that a user will gain and 
> lose group permissions as the email is changed.
>

Hmmm.
Okay. Is this by design? I can understand the arguments for and against 
it, i just want to know whether to file a bug on it.
>