Re: [chairs] SPAM

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

That's part of what I'm trying to figure out: how often and how 
important is it for the guy on the street to be able to respond to a 
person who wrote a message? When would someone respond privately rather 
than by sending a comment to the TC?

-Karl


Eve L. Maler wrote:
> I had been assuming that the Slashdot email-obscuring mechanism was 
> automatic, though I can understand your lack of interest in it if it's 
> not automatic...
> 
> Does the OASIS identifier idea mean that ordinary OASIS members won't be 
> able to look at the archive and figure out how to contact someone who 
> wrote a particular mail message?  That would be a real shame.
> 
>     Eve
> 
> Karl F. Best wrote:
> 
>> David:
>>
>> I like the idea. It would require a bit of extra processing for each 
>> message to match the sender with the Kavi database. The big problem, 
>> though, is that we don't have membership numbers; the "key" or unique 
>> identifier in the database is the email address.
>>
>> But this might have some merit anyway. We'll think about what might be 
>> possible.
>>
>> -Karl
> 
> 


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