Re: [SIPfoundry] Mail to mailman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rejected; Names displayed without permission
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:26 -0700, Joe Blank wrote:
> It is good that your mailing list software is smart enough to not
> include the domain name part of a sender's email address. So, why is
> it not smart enough to do the same for a person's name that is
> embedded in the same email address. It does no good to give users
> control over display of a username in the user options, and then
> bypass the control completely by displaying any name embedded by an
> email server in the email address.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking about. But the suppression of
the domain-part is to make it difficult to automatically harvest e-mail
addresses from the Web-visible archives. Revealing users' actual names
does not reveal their e-mail addresses.
Dale
