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e-mail addresses are erroneously interpreted as mentions #96

Closed FND closed 9 years ago

FND commented 9 years ago

a message like ...

hello <foo@example.org> world

... leads to the following HTML being rendered:

hello <a href=".../updates?author=example">example</a> world

clearly that ain't right

(this confuses our internal feeds consumer, resulting in an e-mail being sent to example@example.org)

aheusingfeld commented 9 years ago

Oah, now I'm sad! I thought that was an implicit "/cc spam.everyone@world.org" feature. SCNR

aheusingfeld commented 9 years ago

But seriously: IMHO this emphasizes my point that we shouldn't have systems "guess" what the intention of the user is i.e. who should be notified but instead make this an explicit decision by the user. Will try evolve that thought and hopefully come up with a usable suggestion for discussion the next days

FND commented 9 years ago

we shouldn't have systems "guess" what the intention of the user is [...] but instead make this an explicit decision by the user

I agree - but isn't that exactly what the @ convention is for?