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Clarify that @python.org email addresses don't get reused; reflow text to fit
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core-developers/memorialization.rst

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* The user's "custom status" is set to 🕊 ``in memoriam``;
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* The user's "about me" is amended with ``$firstname passed away on $date. [In memoriam.]($in_memoriam_post_url)``;
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* In the user's security "recently used devices" the staff member chooses "Log out all";
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* In the user's security "recently used devices" the staff member
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chooses "Log out all";
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* In the user's permissions the staff member chooses "Deactivate account";
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* The user's trust level is reset to ``1: basic user`` (trust level 0 doesn't allow links in "About Me");
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* The user's "associated accounts" (like GitHub) that provide an alternative
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login method, are all disconnected;
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* The user's trust level is reset to ``1: basic user`` (trust level 0
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doesn't allow links in "About Me");
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* The user's "associated accounts" (like GitHub) that provide an
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alternative login method, are all disconnected;
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* The user's API keys are revoked;
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* The user's admin or moderator right is revoked;
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* The user's primary email address is reset to ``[email protected]`` and
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secondary email addresses are removed (this step requires the administrator
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to contact Discourse.org staff via ``[email protected]``)
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* The user's primary email address is reset to
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``[email protected]`` and secondary email addresses are
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removed (this step requires the administrator to contact Discourse.org
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staff via ``[email protected]``).
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The "in memoriam" Discourse topic mentioned above is best created by
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a community member close to the deceased.
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* remove SMTP access from ``[email protected]``;
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* reset the password to POP3/IMAP for ``[email protected]``;
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* disable email forwarding, if set up, for ``[email protected]``;
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* disable email forwarding, if set up, for ``[email protected]`` and
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leave a record permanently as "in memoriam" to avoid future account
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name reuse;
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* remove this email from all mailing lists under ``@python.org``;
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* remove any known alternate emails for the same user from all mailing lists
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under ``@python.org``.
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* remove any known alternate emails for the same user from all mailing
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lists under ``@python.org``.
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In case the email shutdown causes issues for the estate executors, the
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PSF will reasonably try to help if contacted directly.
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python.org admin
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* The user's account (``/admin/users/user``) is deactivated (NOT deleted)
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and their staff and superuser status is unchecked;
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* The user's password is reset to a long random string;
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* The user's primary email address is set to ``[email protected]``
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and set as unverified;
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* The user's primary email address is set to
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``[email protected]`` and set as unverified;
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* The user's secondary email addresses are deleted;
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* The user's API keys (both on the account and ``tastypie``) are deleted;
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* The user's "I would like to be a PSF Voting Member" field is cleared.

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