Barry Warsaw writes: > 2) is more interesting. What kinds of uses are we talking about? You > see a message in an archive from three years ago and you want to > contact the OP about it? Why not just follow up and contact the > mailing list?
For all the reasons why Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful. > Do you want to be contacted off-list for on-list topics? Well, things > like an email forwarding service could solve that, although I think > it's not worth the effort as much as the first use case. What other > kinds of legitimate third party uses does obfuscation/concealment > prevent? Obfuscation is a minor annoyance, but concealment is problematic in cases where the email is the identity, eg, matching list posts to issue tracker IDs. For example, I signed up for and log in to Launchpad as "step...@xemacs.org", but I have to tell bzr that my ID is "stephen-xemacs". Wow, that's transparent. But at least it's guessable. Getting from "Stephen J. Turnbull <email concealed>" to "stephen-xemacs" is not going to be easy if you don't already know me. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
