On 09/03/20 12:17, t...@g... wrote:
> Where is my Email address shown ? I assumed it was hidden.
As I am writing this e-mail, the first line reads t...@g... Your
full address was there, I cared to edit it out and leave only the initials.
The Trisquel Forum is both a web forum and an e-mail list. This
allows members to access the Forum any way they link, and I find that to
be great. Some people prefer access through the web forum. Other
people, like me, prefer access through e-mail - we get to automatically
keep a copy of our messages, and if our access to e-mail is through SMTP
rather than through webmail, our copy is local and no closure of servers
can take it away from us. Also, we can sign it cryptographically in
case we want to.
E-mail lists are basically e-mail resenders - they resend the
accepted messages to every address on the list, keeping the original
headers. This is so for the sake of simplicity, but more importantly to
keep traceability. Any receiver can read the headers and trace back the
e-mail route. This allows to report incoming e-mail spam messages,
tracing them back not only to the Trisquel Forum, but the full way back
to its origin. This ensures that the Trisquel Forum wouldn't be blamed
for the spam and is, of course, a priority. Spammers could introduce
spam messages through the web forum as well, but that is less likely
because they would have to develop a way to automatize the sending
through the web forum, and that would be too burdensome for them -
spammers are lazy. Also, an alerted administrator could immediately
disable any spam account, making that effort sterile.
It comes to this: because this Forum has a double nature, both web
Forum and e-mail list, it is required for every user to have an e-mail
address, and that address to be displayed every message for those who
get them through the e-mail list.
(And when people reply to you through e-mail, their e-mail client
will likely put your e-mail address at the top line of the reply. In
the past, this caused your e-mail address to be shown at the web
Forumtoo, which was incovenient because spam web crawlers would collect
that address and add it to their list. People were told to edit out the
e-mail addresses in their replies, and reprimanded if failed to. Years
ago, when I was a newcomer to this double-nature Forum, it took me a
couple of tries to get it right. But that was in the past... nowadays a
fix for that has been issued: the web forum software identifies e-mail
addresses and replaces them with "name at domain", so no e-mail address
is shown.)
If you don't want your e-mail address to be related to the Trisquel
Forum, the only advice I can give you is to create a different e-mail
address solely for this purpose. I guess you could redirect the
incoming e-mail address to this specific account to /dev/null , making
it a send-only account.
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Ignacio Agulló · [email protected]
