> As a user I have always disliked the form submission quite a bit, > because it does not leave me with a record of my submission in my mail > client's "Sent" folder; So when given the choice I avoid those forms.
The form could have an optional field to send you a copy at your discretion, of course etting anonyminity at 0, unless perhaps you used a 'proxy' email addy as you mentioned in anopther post. But as I argue later in this note, email is not anonymous either. > > In addition, I have lost some messages, due to accidentally closing the > browser window or tab before having sent the message. This happens once > in a while when one is multi-tasking or interrupted while composing a > message. My email client tends to be much more forgiving that way - it > asks, if I want to save the draft message before it quits the > application. So personally, I just don't find a submission form > particularly user friendly. Another scenario that used to happen with some sites is the session would time out while you were composing a message. > > And the submission form is not a particularly high guarantee of > anonymity for the user of the form. Unless the sender sits behind a > gateway or proxy mechanism of some kind, which is shared by many people, > in many cases the identity of the sender could be correlated via IP > addresses rather easily, if a reasonably recent email from the sender is > available. Is this not just as true for email? > So while the website operator / recipient of the form based > message may promise not to check IP addresses, this is of little > consolation to anyone with a bit more technical savvy, who desires > guaranteed anonymity. Which realistically doesn't exist in the scenario you've given where the recipient has a list of IPs to compare to. Unless the user releases their IP and gets a new one just before submission, but that won't work on shaw anyway. It would only semi-work on telus as you can narrow it down to a city, perhaps even a certain area of the city by IP group. If there's a will theres a way... > I bet most of us could figure out the identity of > a high percentage of CLUG members by IP address. In some cases it may > narrow it down to 2-3 people because they are sitting behind a common > gateway or proxy-server, but even that is not particularly anonymous. so is there another solution? Switch proxies every hour perhaps [if you can find that many]? > > But since I can send regular emails to the CLUG folks, it doesn't bother > me that the form is on the CLUG site for those people who feel > differently than me :) > but that is far from anonymous... my thoughts, Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
