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On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 21:26 +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> But we should definitely try to tune down the annoying part of
> it by making it less random and maybe by adding a tag in the cc field...

Less random: sure, whatever's reasonable.

I still think that tagging the name portion of an email address
is not a good idea, especially without some way of turning it
off.  Maybe a mechanism to optionally enable it would be ok.