On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:39:48PM +0100, Jerome De Greef wrote:
> (hum, I think I don't get the point on this one)
I noticed. ;)
The point is, it gives away information that maybe some people don't
want to give away.
Using a randomly-rotated 3- or 4-character string would be far better
than using an incrementing single character.
Regardless of what types of kind of sarcasm about paranoia you can throw
at this, I think there are enough people who would appreciate such an
improvement -- especially one which has no detractors other than folks
who just are not willing to change things.
Many people (besides myself) rewrite Message-IDs for exactly this
reason. This change would make that no longer necessary.
Do you have people looking at your User-Agent string? Yes/no? How do
you know? Well if you aren't concerned then you can leave the string
in, or take it out; that's why this option exists. Someone somewhere
didn't like it, and now we have the user_agent option. Did you
disparage that idea at the time too? ;)
