[OSM-talk] Make Messaging public, or other changes?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Tom Hughes wrote:
> I know this because the absolutely vast, exceedingly non gentle, four 
> language reminder about using the web site to reply rather than email is 
> ignored by large numbers of people every day. 

That's a very clear sign that we did something wrong by implementing 
half of an email system ;-) maybe we should drop that kind of user 
messaging and just configure a mailer to forward 
username at users.openstreetmap.org to the appropriate E-Mail address.

Would probably get us into quite some header rewriting mess though, and 
loads of people would disclose their E-Mail address without wanting to 
do so... then again, maybe we have our priorities wrong between 
community and privacy; we have seen this with the "make my edits public" 
thingie which, with hindsight, should never have been there - all edits 
should have been public for everyone. Perhaps it is the same with all 
this pseudonym stuff - "you can contact any contributor but in doing so 
your E-Mail address will be revealed to him" does not sound like too 
much to ask - you can't go to a mapping party without revealing your 
face either.

Bye
Frederik

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