Alban Hertroys <dalroi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not one of the people who've been communicating off-list about this with him, so I may be wrong, but to my understanding what Magnus wants (the requirement, not a solution to it) is this: > - Person A is on the forums and sends a message that ends up on the ML (and on the forums, naturally). > - Someone on the ML, Person B, sends him a _private_ reply, not intended to end up in either the ML or the forums. > - The message goes to the forum software and is passed on to Person A, and does _not_ end up on the forums or the ML. I tend to agree with Bruce that that's not necessarily a hard requirement: a person who's using the forums to post has more or less disclaimed interest in getting private email, no? But what I think we *do* need to worry about is that someone using the mailing lists might try to send what they *think* is a private reply. We need to be sure that a reply-to-sender-only operation does not end up getting splattered across the forums and/or lists. Maybe bouncing it is sufficient, in which case ML posts originating from forum users don't have to carry a working From: address. What I'm more concerned about myself is that forum users be identifiable. We don't allow anonymous trolls on the mailing lists, and I'm not pleased at the idea that a forum might provide an end-run around that. I don't necessarily think that every posting has to carry a working From: address to meet that requirement, though. A forum handle of some sort would probably be sufficient. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
