On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:18:02AM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
Is a technical solution necessary? Is there consensus that "new message" spoofing should be prohibited?
I have yet to see anyone who supports spoofing. Some editors support (excessively, in my opinion) self-expression on user pages. But this proposed change doesn't curtail self expression, it merely makes it more difficult to use self-expression to spoof user interface. So I think would have agreement by the editors whose concern is self expression.
My concern has always been that spoofed UI could be used for various sorts of fraudulent purposes, since users by and large will trust that links which appear genuine are genuine, and that links without an external link marker are internal links.
Carl