Andy, I'm not sure I agree with that position in this situation. The web application hides everyone's email address while traversing the site, so the users have come to expect that level of privacy as the norm in this environment. You cannot get someone's email address unless (a) you contact them through the contact form and they then respond to you via email, (b) they post a message and you are a recipient of the generated email or (c) they manually include their email address in a post.
Item (b) above has been brought up as a privacy issue. Some users have requested that the software not include their email address in the post-generated email and instead provide a link to the contact form on the website. I'm considering it, either as a hard code or (more likely) as a site option. It's not just a question of privacy, it's also a question of anti-spam. Nowadays, the major concern (as far as I can tell) of email integrity is the zombification of net user computers as spam-proxies using their address books and inbox emails. Why share your email address with hundreds of people you don't know and who should probably not have your email address if you don't want them to? Not spreading your address across machines that don't specifically need it (ie; not family, friend or associate) ensures a lower probability of malicious harvesting. Call me paranoid, but if I can help in some small way and it's not hard to do, why the hell not? Of course this doesn't answer my main question. I guess I'll go with option 2 below. Mik At 11:32 AM 7/24/2007, Andy Matthews wrote: >How is it a privacy issue to show the "from" address as the email of the >person sending the email? > >The sender has chosen to send an email, and they have chosen to include >their email address as part of the submission. There's no reasonable >guarantee of privacy for them. > > >andy > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mik Muller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:24 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: OT: WebSite Email Address > >Hey all, > >I've been hosting community websites and clients with my software for years >and up until now any email that originates from the website due to a posting >has been addressed "From:" the site admin, whoever that may be for the site. >E.g.: "Michael Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" I'm now rethinking this >policy. > >Perhaps the From should be one of the following: > > "Site Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" * > "Site Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > "Poster Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > >* created as an auto-responder. -------- Michael Muller Admin, MontagueMA.net Website work (413) 863-0030 cell (413) 320-5336 skype: michaelBmuller http://www.MontagueMA.net Eschew Obfuscation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284610 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
