David Earl wrote: > If you send a message out from the website send-a-message with a random > token in it somewhere (e.g. reply-to: > "token"@privatemail.openstreetmap.com, or subject: bla bla ["token"], or > in the message-id, so you can see any reply is a reply to a web-site > originated message, then you could capture the replies and insert them > as if they'd been done on the website. So long as they come from a known > member and they contain a valid reply token, I think the risk of spam > would be very small indeed. I'd certainly find it more convenient to be > able to reply to the emails, and we could remove all the other stuff > around the message which often outweighs the message itself.
Yes, I have considered this, and one day I might do it. It is non-trivial however as the machines which have access to the database are not able to receive incoming email. > I wonder if we could even allow messages to be initiated by email (so we > all have, in effect, emails of the form > "username"@privatemail.openstreetmap.org or some such. There obviously > is more risk of spam, but if it is restricted to say one email per > minute and it has to come from a known email address, do you think spam > would be a problem? (It someone is determined enough, they can already > spam people: you just need a script to scrape the send-a-message pages > and you can already do it through the website.). I have thought about this as well, but I'm much more wary of this as we will get lots of flak about spam and things. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
