Comment 6 for bug 31586
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| Brad Bollenbach (bradb) wrote Re: [Bug 31586] Malone comments are sent in email and forge the address of the person who filed them | #6 |
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On 15-Feb-06, at 8:12 PM, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> https:/
>
> Affects: launchpad (upstream)
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>
> Description:
> I have no interest in corresponding with fellow bug commenters in
> private email, I only wish to discuss a bug in the bug comments
> itself,
> not in private email. The fact that my comments arrive in other
> people's
> mail boxes with my full name and email address in them looking for all
> the world like I typed them in and emailed them out myself (unless one
> checks the headers) encourages people to mail me privately in response
> to the mail they think I sent them.
I agree with Mary, less so for the privacy concerns, more so for
having zero interest in getting a direct reply or, for that matter,
needing to directly reply.
Using the person who made the change in the From also has causes
confusion for each and every user that isn't subscribed to a
subscriber-only mailing list to which bugmail might get sent (bug 3003).
Cheers,
--
Brad Bollenbach