On Thursday March 20 2008 04:34:09 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 07:21:42 pm jnewman wrote: > > Zachary Goldberg wrote: > > > Are these being caused by people changing the subject mid-thread on > > > the forum? Can we disable that ability to prevent thread jumps? > > > > No, they are being caused by posts from outside the forum (ala the list). > > Not sure what can be done about that, other than to ask people to try to > > keep that to a minimum. > > While we're at it, for the benefit of list users, could we get the forum to > put a real address in the From: instead of a nonfunctional boilerplate? No, e-mail address shouldn't be revealed to the public (and spam robots). And if user wants his/her contacts published in the forum he/she can register there and fill in corresponding fields and then continue to write to mailing list (instead of forum). If user don't want his/her e-mail to be revealed in the forum (or somewhere else) then this shouldn't happened. Of course it is possible to modify e-mail somehow to prevent spam robots from collecting the address so easily but protected e-mail and true e-mail are different things (as I said above, true e-mail address never should be revealed to the public).
