Comment 2 for bug 31586
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| Mary Gardiner (puzzlement) wrote Re: Malone comments are sent in email and forge the address of the person who filed them | #2 |
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Ok, I agree with Daf's comments re forging. I haven't used debbugs in a while, but I'll make a few points about why this behaviour wasn't expected and why it might be bad though.
It's unexpected because:
1. Bugzilla doesn't do it; and
1. it's unusual for something entered into a web form (other than a form on a web mail site) to "turn into" an email from me. It's not surprising when an email I sent (eg to a mailing list) looks like an email. I'm not used to it from web based bug trackers and other web forums.
On the undesirability, a bit of background. I'm involved in LinuxChix, which is primarily used by women who are only peripherally involved in FOSS development circles. A substantial proportion of them are very protective of their identities, particularly their email addresses but also their names (a small number have stalkers, lots are worred about spam and a larger number are worried about future employers googling them). This kind of environment has always led me to be a narky about applications leaking names and email addresses as if those things aren't precious to people. They're public property among FOSS developers, but not amongst users.
I'm going to turn on the "hide email address" option before I post this and see if it's still leaked in the email that goes out. (I registered with LP way back, I don't recall if it had that option then.)