On Tuesday 14 March 2006 19:56, Steffen Kluge wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 13:20 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> this happens to be just one of the very many lists on redhat.com and
>> I don't see the list admins asking for suggestions on how to handle
>> this.
>
>Neither do I, but there has been the contention that nothing could be
>done. David and I beg to differ. We think putting posters' email
>addresses into post headers is a mis-feature that turns out to be a
>weakness.
>
>> So without offering to write the program necessary for redhat as a
>> supplement to their list management software, making suggestions
>> about what 'they' should do is strictly engaging in a
>> self-indulgent activity.
>
>Sticking ones head in the sand is a kind of self-indulgence, too.
>
>What we are proposing is avoiding to put list members' real email
>addresses into the "From:" headers of list email. Obviously those real
>addresses are essential for submitting and receiving posts, hence
>submitting or subscribing under a fake address isn't an option.
>
>As for "a program" to do this: seeing that list email is sent by an
>outbound MTA running postfix, how about this in
> sender_canonical.regexp:
>
> # Don't munge the list address:
> /^(.*)@(redhat\.com)/ ${1}@${2}
> # Munge everything else:
> /^(.*)@(.*)/ ${1}@${2}.invalid
>
>Season to taste.
>
>The first line doesn't take into account that RH staff can be list
>subscribers as well, they would just miss out on that feature. This
>assumes that the outbound MTA is used for list email as well as
> non-list email. If it's only used for list email the problem doesn't
> exist.
>
>The kind of munging proposed above would also cater for private
> replies with very little additional effort for those who insist on
> it.
>
>> Unless of course, you create a bugzilla entry in the mailman package
>> as an RFE ;-) My thinking is that unless you are running lists
>> yourself and experiencing this problem, it's not too likely to get
>> much traction.
>
>If people agree that putting list members' real email addresses into
>posts is a mis-feature, it just might.
>
I that is done, then how would you propose to direct mail a poster on a
sensitive subject, such as a security issue might be a desireable
thing?
>Cheers
>Steffen.
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