Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:05, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:

It's useless to spoof the From field because many email services won't
send it, a point I already covered in the email you quoted.

When a patch is finally emailed, it's the From field that is used for
Author attribution.

You see? Your identity has been tied to whatever email service you
happen to use at any given time rather than to something with more
long term stability.

A lot of trouble could probably be avoided if the Authorship
information could be sent as something separate from the From field. I
don't think it would be quite as powerful as having a uuid, but it
would be less invasive and probably practically as effective.