- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:36:11 -0500
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: uri@w3.org, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, jwz@jwz.org
Martin Duerst scripsit:
> In particular, the current spec for mailto:, RFC 2368, contains
> some advice against using a bcc field in a mailto: URI, but this
> doesn't seem to be followed, and we were unable to find any reason,
> so we removed it. Comments on this (both positive and negative,
> if possible with reasons) would be appreciated.
The whole point of bcc: is to keep certain recipients secret,
but if they are exposed in the mailto: URL, they are hardly
a secret any more, eh?
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand
on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land,
to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
--Thomas Henry Huxley
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