Article:		Constraining Validation
Subject:		Lack of name in From header considered harmful
Date:		2004-08-26 03:57:09
From:		bryan rasmussen
why? (just noticed that part) I can of course go out and set it up, I use an online interface and when they changed from the old email server to horde they did not migrate my information. Okay I will do that. Hmm, I have it open right now, amazingly enough I could actually tell it that I was genghis khan with an address of bry@itnisk.com and it would allow that (something must be done about this!), in a way that's worse than just having bry@itnisk.com, because in the old way you don't know who I am but you know (well, you have good reason to suspect) that you are communicating with the guy you don't know at that email address, now with the name genghis khan you think I am a great mongolian warlord (which is wrong, I am not mongolian). I don't think that the Lack of name in From header should be considered harmful , but rather the meaningless of name in From header is harmful in the context of identity management, in the context of privacy it's just fine. Also in the context of lazy guy who doesn't have a real email program installed on his computer, just blat and some rebol scripts. And an online email program with an old identity on there.

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• Lack of name in From header considered harmful
  2004-08-26 04:00:30 Edd Dumbill [Reply]
  
  In general people use their real names in XML-DEV as it helps their professional career. And as you seem to be a regular part of interesting conversations, I felt the need to identify you by more than just your email address.
  
  

• This is just to say
  2004-08-26 03:58:41 bryan rasmussen [Reply]
  
  that the comments here by Bryan Rasmussen were not in fact made by the Bryan Rasmussen but by someone else entirely of the same name.