At 10:52 PM 12/15/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >I'm toying with the idea of having the mailing list software munge >certain types of mailing list addresses in the body of a message >as it comes in, before it is archived or sent out. > >The patterns I'd look for are something like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >munged to > aaaspam writes: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >munged to > aaaspam writes: > > Albert A. Aspam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >munged to > Albert A. Aspam writes: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >munged to > >.*aaaspam > > > From: Albert A. Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >munged to > From: Albert A. Spam > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >munged to > From: aaaspam > >etc. > >Any objections to this? This should leave email addresses in signatures >and in ChangeLogs alone while catching the majority of the abuses, I think. > >We'd also talked a while ago about adding something like a --EOF-- flag >which could be put in a message to cause the mailing list software to >ignore everything after that point. This would allow the opt-in removal >of those multi-line disclaimers that everyone loves.
I'd LOVE this! -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
