On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 18:12, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alban Hertroys <dal...@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> writes: >> I'm not one of the people who've been communicating off-list about this with >> him, so I may be wrong, but to my understanding what Magnus wants (the >> requirement, not a solution to it) is this: > >> - Person A is on the forums and sends a message that ends up on the ML (and >> on the forums, naturally). >> - Someone on the ML, Person B, sends him a _private_ reply, not intended to >> end up in either the ML or the forums. >> - The message goes to the forum software and is passed on to Person A, and >> does _not_ end up on the forums or the ML. > > I tend to agree with Bruce that that's not necessarily a hard > requirement: a person who's using the forums to post has more or less > disclaimed interest in getting private email, no? > > But what I think we *do* need to worry about is that someone using the > mailing lists might try to send what they *think* is a private reply. > We need to be sure that a reply-to-sender-only operation does not end up > getting splattered across the forums and/or lists. Maybe bouncing it is > sufficient, in which case ML posts originating from forum users don't > have to carry a working From: address.
Depends on your definitoin of working From. I think they need to carry a working From, from the perspective of SMTP, because otherwise they run a higher risk of getting eaten by anti-spam. That From doesn't necessarily need to go to the user - if it goes to something that does a "controlled bounce" informing the original poster, that should still work. > What I'm more concerned about myself is that forum users be > identifiable. We don't allow anonymous trolls on the mailing lists, > and I'm not pleased at the idea that a forum might provide an end-run > around that. I don't necessarily think that every posting has to > carry a working From: address to meet that requirement, though. > A forum handle of some sort would probably be sufficient. The forum is, AIUI, requiring a validated registration, so we know that it's not just a completely unidentified person. I assume the forum will be putting the registered *name* in the name part of the From field still, even if it uses a shared address. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
