On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:05, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's useless to spoof the From field because many email services won't > send it, a point I already covered in the email you quoted. > > When a patch is finally emailed, it's the From field that is used for > Author attribution. > > You see? Your identity has been tied to whatever email service you > happen to use at any given time rather than to something with more > long term stability. A lot of trouble could probably be avoided if the Authorship information could be sent as something separate from the From field. I don't think it would be quite as powerful as having a uuid, but it would be less invasive and probably practically as effective. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html