On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 13:04 -0500, dimesio wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > > the handle is very frequently > > forged in spam: for instance, I see significant amounts of spam that > > allegedly was sent by yourself > > Is this email you receive directly from the list, or are you accessing > it via Nabble? I have noticed that Nabble mangles threads badly--posts > made by other people routinely show up under my name on their site. > But these same posts are correctly attributed on both the forum and in > the WineHQ archives. > Directly from the wine-users mailing list. I don't have a Nabble account. > Yes, they do. If they didn't, the original poster in this thread would > not be having the problem he had. The forum gives registered users > the choice of whether or not to show their email address in their > profile. People who don't want to give out their email address to > random strangers--i.e., sensible people--check "no." If you look at my > profile, you won't see my email address, either. > So I see - I just added myself to the Wine user forum today to see how it works, and have also found out that changing the e-mail address deactivates the account and issues a fresh challenge/response for the new address, which is good. Martin