<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 4, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Ben Wilson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Filter the author from the 'From' email address. No need for</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">username/password in the clear. If the site knows the email address</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">and that author has permission, then post. Again, this is efficient.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Posting back is a way of ensuring the email address has not been</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">co-opted---which would be an even greater problem if you passed</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">username/password in an email.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Where is the wiki getting the email address? How is it stored?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have about oh -- a bizillion email addresses -- that's why people get private emails from me at Eclectic Tech, my business address -- then the LIST gets one from <A href="mailto:crisses@kinhost.org">crisses@kinhost.org</A>, because I have to re-send to the list when I flake what address I'm sending from...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So telling the wiki one email address for me isn't going to float and I don't really feel like giving a wiki every email I might use to send an email to be posted.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It is possible to store, authenticate against, and grab a username from a stored email->username list somewhere, but it's also making the recipe more complex to set up, and putting information on the wiki that I'm not sure we want to.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>