Replacing registered e-mail address in message body with link to Profiles
From:
Richard Waid
Date:
Jan 16 22:52 UTC
Short link
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 16:44 -0600, Steven Clift wrote:
> It was in the message.
>
> The person probably didn't understand that e-mail participants could see her
e-mail in the From: (something that I think should stay and IMHO web posters
should be given the private reply option like Google Groups does), but having a
version of her e-mail reposted on the public web is what raised up her dander.
>
> A short cut to clift (at) publicus.net might be to simply put in
> clift(at) and leave the rest blank ... the only problem is that e-mail
> addresses meant to be displayed for contacting people would the become
> dead ends.
IMO, in the email that goes *out* to people, it would be silly for us to
modify it at all, given that the email address has already been exposed
in a much more convenient location (ie. the From: field).
In the *website* version, I think we should probably be hiding the email
addresses better. That isn't a privacy issue IMO, it just makes it even
harder for spammers.