Dear Debian Legal Team,

Thank you very much for your help.  I've read each email in this
thread with care, and at last can consider this issue closed.

On 9 June 2017 at 02:27, Anthony DeRobertis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/08/2017 06:52 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'd prefer not to, because Message-ID reveals what I consider private
>> information (IP address or client hostname) to an unbounded audience,
>> and I believe that this is a greater privacy violation than the
>> lintian warning against downloading a hyperlinked image in local [...]
>
>
> That depends on the software that generated the message (e.g., Thunderbird
> seems to do uuid@domain, so avoids the privacy issue—at least it reveals
> less than the From header), but where it does you could just redact the
> hostname (or entire domain). That'd still preserve the ability to reference
> an individual message.
>
> Message-Id: <localpart@...> and
> Message-Id: <localpart@REDACTED>
>
> are both pretty clear what you're doing.
>

Anthony, thank you for this solution! :-)  I didn't know that this was allowed.
Ben, now there's a Message-ID field.  I'll upload to experimental as
soon as Sean Whitton grants me DM permissions for src:muse-el.

Sincerely,
Nicholas

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