Re: [Evolution] per-message From: header

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Quoting Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>:
> > > Surely it's up to the receiver to decide whether or not he/she wants to
> > > be difficult to communicate with. I don't understand your hostility to
> > > the idea.
> > I don't either.  It sounded like flame bait, which I was about to take,
> > but as it seems generally out of character for him I'm inclined to chalk
> > it up to something going on that I don't know about and ignore it.
> No, it's not flame bait.

+1 Thank you.

> I think it's a mis-feature -
> both the "feature" of using throw-away email addresses and the "feature"
> of being able to change the from header.

Agree, 100%.

It not "flame bait" because this is a categorically *BAD IDEA*.  There  
are differences of pespective, experience, and needs... and then there  
is still the bucket labeled "BAD IDEAS".

Users will mis-use such a feature, as exactly this use illustrates.

> But it's been implemented for the next version of Evolution, so there's
> nothing we can do about it (it's not really likely to be removed now
> it's been put in) so there's little point in continuing to discuss it or
> argue the merits (or not) of it.

The free-form From has legitimate uses as well.  There is always that  
odd one-off thing you need to do; the tool should never stand in the  
way.

> Oh, and it sounds quite rude to talk about someone in the 3rd person on
> a mailing list that you know they are subscribed to - you wouldn't do
> that if they were in the same room.

I'm a big boy,  I can take the blow back;  I've been a sys-admin for  
three decades - my hair is permanently parted from all the blow back.  
:)  And those three decades have taught me the concrete immutable  
reality of the "BAD IDEA" bucket.  I have been struck upside the head  
by it on many an occasion.