Begin forwarded message:
> From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> Date: 20 November 2010 3:58:41 AM AEDT
> To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
> Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 16:14, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Dave Page's message of vie nov 19 11:43:34 -0300 2010:
>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> However if I had signed up to the forum (and not the mailing list) my From would have to be subscribed for the mailing list to accept it like:
>>>> Elliot Chance <forums(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)au>
>>>> John Smith <forums(at)postgresql(dot)com(dot)au>
>>>> ... etc.
>>>>
>>>> OK, so after a brief background I'd like to organise a solution. Without any other feasible option would this generic address system be allowed?
>>>
>>> I wouldn't be happy with that as it prevents private replies to the
>>> author and would make it easy to send what was intended as a private
>>> reply to the public forums by mistake.
>>
>> Isn't that a secondary use case, though? It would be easy to solve this
>> by providing a URL to the post in the forum that you can click; assuming
>> the forum interface gives you the option to reply privately.
>
> That would pretty much make it impossible to use offline.
>
> That would be annoying, but I guess survivable. But how would that
> work for a user that hasn't signed up for the forum? How does it
> verify the sender?
>
>
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