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  • From: Richard Balint <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-dev] Anonymous posting
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:09:18 -0500 (EST)

Thanks a lot!! Lord, I love open source communities. :)

Yes... the issue here is privacy... We've just moved our 230+ lists over
from Mercury(Novell) to Sympa... And we do have about 15 "anonymous"
lists in those. =shrug= Let's see how well it works now. :) Can't be any
worse than Mercury at worst. ;)

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Richard Balint address@concealed
University of Dayton ACTS/MNS
(937) 229-3888 Network Specialist

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Dominique ROUSSEAU wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 04:35:46PM +0100, Aumont - Comite Reseaux des
> Universites wrote:
> > > Sorry about this not being in French... I took Spanish in high school.
> > > ;)
> > >
> > > But is there a way for a list to be anonymous? As in, the poster's
> > > email
> > > won't be shown? Only that of the list? If not, is this something the
> > > development team would be willing to incorporate? Thank you.
> >
> > It is not easy to imagine in which case you need this, but it is
> > easy to introduce it on sympa. I did it and it will be in the
> > next release.
> >
> > Sympa will purge the following smtp fields from the original message
> > if the list parameter "anonymous_sender" is set to true.
> >
> > From:
> > Received:
> > Message-id:
> > Sender:
> > X-Sender:
> > Resent-From:
> >
> > Is this list of field correct ?
>
> Perhaps eliminate Reply-To and all the X-* (ecept those user by sympa)
> which could be carrying private info (I think it's about privacy) and
> are too numerous to list them all.
>
> Dom
>
> --
> Dominique Rousseau <address@concealed>
> Neuronnexion - http://www.neuronnexion.com
>




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