Re: PEAR Account Request: kbit

On Fri Apr 30, 2004 at 12:0058AM +0200, Cipriano Groenendal wrote: > > Fixed in CVS. Unless people check the field "Show email address?", > > their email address will not show up in the mail. > I'd considered fixing this aswell when i wrote my account-req patch, but > there was 1 problem with all of that. > The mail send to pear-dev has its From: set to the person requesting the > account. Good catch, I hadn't thought of that. > If that's changed, we can no longer reply to it either, to talk to > them if wanted... > You'd have to break that too, but in turn that would remove the ability for > other devs to communicate with said person, which was one of the main pro's > for moving those mails to pear-dev. In my opinion people who want to be part of PEAR have to accept that their email address becomes visible to the public: In the end they will most likely participiate in discussions on the mailing lists, where exposing the address is really unevitable. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/