Replacing registered e-mail address in message body with link to Profiles
From:
Richard Waid
Date:
Jan 16 22:07 UTC
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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:54 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> Your proposal, Steve, is that we provide the option of redacting the
> user's email address from the From line, and replacing it with the
> address of the group. Then the only way to contact other members
> off-list (on most sites) would be through the Request Contact page on
> the profile. This page does not allow the user to enter in any text in
> order to *mitigate* the effect of the invasion of privacy.
I'm also confused here. Does the proposal regard changing the obscured
email address eg. clift (at) publicus.net (which would be easy), or
changing the From: address?
What Steve actually said was:
"...privacy has been violated because someone else form the
e-mail world replied and included their deducible e-mail in the
*MESSAGE*..." (emphasis mine)
In the message body case, well, yes, I think we can probably do better
that the way we currently obscure it. However, this is *not* a privacy
breach -- the list is public, anyone can join it, and common observation
skills should tell a user that all email comes From: the email of the
user sending it (which makes any obscured email in the body moot).
If they have always been web only, that is a slightly different case, as
Michael has correctly explained. Given that it shows you the email
address that you'll be posting the message from, even in web only mode,
I'd suggest that even in web only mode it should be fairly obvious
(though we could make it even more obvious by explicitly stating that at
the time of posting I guess).