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If they submit them from personal or anonymous email the patches may have come under more sucutiny.

They gain some trust comming from university email addresses

Exactly. Users contributing from the University addresses were borrowing against the reputation of the institution. That reputation is now destroyed and each individual contributor must build their own reputation to earn trust.

I can't understand this. Why would a university be more trustworthy? Foreign actors have been known to plant students, for malicious intent.

edit: Reference to combat the downvote: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/american-universities-are...

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