From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:12:31 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Message-ID: <b4087cc51003190812v73c23cb1jdb37341183831421@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b4087cc51003190805h1eb91af9wf0c8e987f9a75026@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:05, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.