Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 19, 2010, 15:12 UTC
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- <b4087cc51003190812v73c23cb1jdb37341183831421@mail.gmail.com>
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- <b4087cc51003190805h1eb91af9wf0c8e987f9a75026@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:05, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.