From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 04:41:35 CST
In <200101261235.4tf7@message-id.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
>John Stanley wrote:
>> Remove the From: header altogether and
>> let's stop violating privacy principles.
>As I said before: Let's make it optional.
Certainly, when reading news, I like to look at the From header to see who
is writing. I like to see _something_ there, if only so that I can deduce
from the style of the munge how stupid/paranoid/believable the guy really
is. And the consistent use of the same munge serves to identify repeated
posting by the same guy.
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