Sreyanth writes:
Hi Terri & others
I am Sreyantha Chary (you can call me Sreyanth), a current MBA student at IIM Ahmedabad. I have been a GSoC student for the past 2 years and would like to hack on Mailman this year.
I am interested in implementing the *anonymous *users feature and dashboards for admins/owners/mods
I have a few questions in mind about the anonymous users feature.
- Lets say a user A sends an email and it gets disguised as <foo>@<bar>. Should the user B who sends another anon email gets disguised as <foo>@<bar>?
No. Each user's "disguised address" (I think the term most used is "alias") needs to be different from other users. The real-id-to-alias mapping might be consistent for the whole site, only within a list or a thread, or even be regenerated per-post, depending on the use case. It might be an option, or you can pick one. There has been discussion of this on-list, see the archives.
- How do we store the email mapping? The email identifier mapped to the user's email or list's subscriber id for that user?
That's a requirements issue that you should think about and tell us what you decide and why.
Are we looking at implementing an encryption/decryption algorithm here for additional security?
Depends on the threat model, that is, whose anonymity you want to protect from whom.