mailinglist problem?

[KDevelop Developer Mailinglist]

On 5/8/06, KDevelop Developer Mailinglist
<kdevelop-devel at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> On 08.05.06 14:54:28, KDevelop Developer Mailinglist wrote:
> > KDevelop Developer Mailinglist wrote:
> > > Suddenly all my mail from the kdevelop-devel mailinglist come up as sent from:
> > > "KDevelop Developer Mailinglist
> > > <kdevelop-devel at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de> to kdevelop-devel", not as
> > > sent from the original author. (This makes it rather confusing who is
> > > actually the sender of a message, as people don't always state their
> > > name.)
> > >
> > > What's up? Am I the only one seeing this?
> > No, we finaly have a new mailinglist server.
> > And I configured it to hide all e-mail addresses.
> >
> > As you all know I really hate Spammers, e-mail harverters and the like!
>
> Well, an announcement would have been nice. Also while I understand your
> point I think it would better be handled in the archiving-software, i.e.
> Mails sent out are still untouched and the archive hides all email
> addresses.
>
> Also this hinders sending private emails extremly or maybe makes it
> nearly impossible to write PM's.
>
> I vote for bringing back the emails.
>
> If it was already decided by the community that this is wanted, I'm
> sorry to have bothered you and I'd welcome a link to the thread.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas

It's certainly news to me. Even worse than the problem of finding an
email for direct communication is how this anonymization makes
following an email thread almost impossible. Figuring out who said
what is essential for following an argument and most email software
I've used the last 10 years quote by using the email of the author.

Please bring back the email adresses.

// jens