[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #124771] bug report

[Barry Smith]

On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>     I do not understand this. If the user knows your email address they can still send you email. You are telling me you can send me an email that does not contain your email address somewhere in the header?
> 
>    yes  reply-to is a good start but it is not a finish. People by-pass that.
> 
> That would be good enough

    WRONG

> because they'd have to edit their headers to do something else.
>  
>     This is easy. The not-be-named developer simply modifies the subject line in any way. The match doesn't work so the message does not go back to the user
> 
> Yup, just possibly unintuitive that the ticket number has to be removed to make a private reply.