In article <20150423021027.GL16567@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 01:58:27AM -0000, John Levine wrote: >> Someone pointed out that the authors all get notices when a new draft >> is posted. That seems good enough for the rare cases of false >> attribution, so "never mind". > >Except that the people included are thereby on the record as somehow >being an author of these things, and maybe they don't want to be. I >think that's a little worrisome. I was assuming that aggrieved non-authors could then use out of band means to ask that their unauthored drafts be unpublished. At least this lets them know about funny business. Sure, a sufficiently devious author could use fake addresses that he controlled, but that seems a higher degree of evil than we need to plan for. Should it happen, I'm sure we'll have the tools to swat the violators. R's, John