Is erine obligated to reveal our true names
Following up on the FAQ topic of writing anonymous email,
I'm Alice Tairik. I used erine.email to write an anonymous email to Bob, but he comes to see to say he knew I sent that email. Isn't erine.email an email anonymizer?
I want to express a different opinion, but first of all, let me explain when I will definitely need erine --
When we comes to a web site that we have never been-to / heard-of before, and it asks for our email address before proceeding, that's when the alarm bell sounds off in my brain, and I think it is necessary to use erine. I.e., for government or banks, who know our names already, I really don't see the need to use erine.
All in all, using erine, for me, is to protect my privacy, not only my email address, but sometime my true name as well, when a web site is so dubious that I don't really want to give out my true first name and last name.
I agree with the saying on the FQA that "Sending her email address was mandatory. But sending her name was not", however, this line:
She decided to configure her client so that it explicitly adds her name to all her email.
I have a different view because that's the default behavior of any email client: Thunderbird, an app on her smartphone, a webmail or else. Unless explicitly removing our names, 99.999% of us will send emails with our names. If using webmail like gmail/yahoo, we don't even have any choice but to send emails with our names.
erine.email must not decide if Alice sent her name deliberately or not. It's out of the erine.email anonymization scope.
- Given that 99.999% of the cases that it is not us to deliberately send emails with our names, but we are forced to do so. It is not us deciding if to sent our names deliberately or not, we have not control of it at all.
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spamgourmet
doesn't have such problem, so I presume people migrating fromspamgourmet
would be expecting the same too.
Actually, the correction is very simple, instead of put the following in mail header when forwarding the email:
From: Firstname Lastname <brand42.joe@erine.email>
(obtained by parsing the original header with email.utils.formataddr((getLabel(header_value), finalSender))
)
just put
From: brand42.joe@erine.email
(obtained by calculating from user profile)
and we all will be happy.
OK?