Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...
On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here.
> I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while
> sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address.
>
> As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe
> as a *poster* as Mike.McCarty@NOSPAMsbcglobal.net, while receiving
> the posts as Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net, which is my real
> e-mail address. No e-mail would be sent to the alias, which would
> be used only to permit posting, but would not be subscribed as
> a recipient.
Email address munging is considered harmful. It serves only to hinder
legitimate replies to your email, and utterly ignores the very problem it
supposedly "resolves." Debian's lists are also open to all posters and
acccessable via gmane, etc. and those readers do like to post, too. Not to
mention people replying to list archives.
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/
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