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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 06/03/2017 03:31 PM, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> Dear Flemming,
> 
> this is my personal opinion as member of the community.
> 
> the only thing you need to use sympa is valid email adress. this email
> adress can remain hidden if you set the anonymous_sender option of the
> list.

Unfortunately there is a flaw in Sympa, as the X-Validation-Ba could reveal
an email address that should be hidden:

X-Validation-by: address@concealed

I suppose we should open an issue on this?

Regards
         Racke

> 
> Also, the ongoing work on sympa7 will provide an unified interface for
> multiple list servers and we really want people to encourage people to
> have many instances bound together instead of one huge server (that's
> why we have some YUNoHost members in our community). Decentralizing
> thing  is a sine qua none for privacy and scalablity and we know that.
> 
>> It should be an opt-in on administrator or list-owner level to deviate
>> from this
> 
> I don't think so: sympa is used in a lot of corporate sites and
> technical community where being anonymous has no sense but something we
> need is to provide more templating system to setup a site the way you
> want.
> 
>> e.g. asking list users to reveal real name, photo, etc.
> 
> this could be an idea: giving the users to have a "per list identity". 
> 
>> In order to promote quality, it should also be possible to give points
>> to comments/mails in the webinterface (a possibility that might be
>> restricted to certain persons, cf. slashdot),
> 
> Not only via the web interface: we can also +1 or 👍 by email.
> 
>> But, I think it
>> is important that the open source community develop mailinglist/forum
>> systems that address the concerns of privacy invasion and surveillance.
> 
> it is so important we started it in april but the thing is we need
> contributions so don't hesitate if you can help us by any mean
> (contribution, documentation, translation, funding, promotion, ...).
> 
> regards
> marc
> 


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