Hi Rashi,

You should post directly to mailman-developers for anything you feel is related to GSoC. I am not the sole person going to select a student for this (or any) project (even if my name is listed as probable mentor in the wiki).

On 28 February 2015 at 12:39, Rashi Karanpuria <2013165@iiitdmj.ac.in> wrote:

Trying to hide things from list moderator may be a futile approach in case of mailman, though allowing list moderator to be the supreme boss decreases the no of user cases it serves for eg. a complaint/suggestion list in organization mailing lists may end up useless as the head would know who criticized him but it still covers many critical use cases. Coming to the present approach we were wondering if trust was more important than being anonymous I listed the use cases [1] and concluded that being anonymous is a major feature than being creditable. As in the whistle blower use case we were discussing, the concern was if we don't keep the same fake id for an exposer, people won't believe her. But in my opinion even if she keeps the same fake identity people won't believe her until she proves or shows that she is telling the truth because the matter she is exposing is critical and delicate and works on proofs.

[1]: though could act as a plus point here as we are handling a social issue.

1. *Alcoholics list*: Here alcoholics suffering and willing to give it up share their issues and seek help from the community and people of the same type. Trust

But it still meets its purpose without involving trust as the major work is to arrive to a solution and meet people of your type and share the pain and get cured. 2. *therapy group*: Controlled by the doctor and as he knows everything being the list moderator he can better help his patients allowing them to mingle anonymously and as above it serves the causes aimed at. 3. *Drug Peddlers group or mafia asso.*: Although we are not aiming at helping this section of people but just a thought! The king pin is the head and so is supposed to know everything but the workers below him need not know him or the co workers. 4. *Whistle Blowers*: As mentioned it works on proofs and not trust. 5. *Pope Confessions*: Similar functioning to therapy group. 6. *Battered wives*: Suffers as if the list moderator knows the users (here wives not interested in revealing identities to any one) who will she be so that the wives (users) should trust her. 7. *Tax Evaders*: Trust here is not required as people believe if the method worked. If you need trustworthy methods why would you subscribe to such a list. And even if this list has trust in the form of permanent fake ids the person after suggesting correct methods first and then lay the traps so people still can't trust anyone here. 8. *Teacher Student feedback and discussions*: College/School authorities are the list admins and moderators here. And in such a list lesser the trust better the feedback ;)

-- thanks, Abhilash Raj