On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:54:39 -0700 Derek Balling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mentioned this once before and the general response I got was > "it uses them for loop detection, so it leaves them alone", but > for anonymous lists (especially ones dealing with sensitive > subjects) those received headers can easily give away the identity > of the person sending the message, which is a Bad Thing. > The X-Been-There flag SHOULD be catching looping, so I'm not > worried if this "loop detection of last resort" is removed. > This really (IMHO) should be there if we want to be able to > consider anonymous lists anonymous. Right now, they're WORSE than > anonymous because they give the ILLUSION of anonymity. :( >From an anonymity perspective, to do it properly ALL headers other than TO/FROM/CC/SUBJECT need to be removed. Its also worth realising that the likely most common use of this feature isn't for anonymity, but is for group presence. Eg a MailMan run tech support list where all official reponses come from the same address. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
