Re: Mail thread references in commits

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mail thread references in commits
Date: 2016-12-01 20:54:49
Message-ID: CA+TgmoabrGK9M=ztjguTN6BCcpHDScJ-PDJ6BbDAoXdpUzrcHg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> On 30 November 2016 at 16:19, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqTHyDYF-FO+fZvxRhz-7_hPTm4RodBcsy9-NoqHvEtc3w@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> I'll be interested to know if it breaks anyone's MUA. If it doesn't all we
>> will be arguing about are aesthetics, and I'm a firm believer in function
>> over form.
>
> I can't say I feel especially strongly either way on this but just to
> toss out a small thing that might make a small difference....
>
> If you happen to know how your message-ids are generated then you
> might be able to do something useful with them. For instance, you
> could search all git commits for urls to messages you wrote -- for
> instance any commit that has CAB7nPq is referencing a message written
> by Michael Paquier.
>
> On the other hand you could put something naughty in the message-id
> forcing everyone else to use URLs with dirty words in them. Or with
> words like "terrorist" in them. Or with some javascript/html injection
> attack of some sort...

...or the name of your company/your email hosting provider's company...

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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