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

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> 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.

I would second that.  Personally I like communicating through email
much better than through a website (which I only do if there is
really no other way).

It can still be possible to send an email from the website which would
get the users.openstreetmap.org address as From address and thus
hiding the user's primary address.

Matthias