On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 09:53:39AM -0700, Elvin Peterson wrote: >--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote: >> >> > --- Larry Hall wrote: >> > > Lots of email clients do this automatically. >> > >>>This should be done server side, by the mailing list manager. If you >>>subscribe to any of the sourceforge lists, you will know that they do >>>this automatically. Much better than requesting each person to do it >>>everytime (something always gets through and then it is spam city). >> >>This wasn't an arbitrary decision. Both ways have been tried, and, in >>general, it was not possible to reliably munge e-mail addresses (and >>*only* e-mail addresses) in the archived messages. This garbled the >>message contents, and so was turned off. The headers are still >>munged... >> >>There might be a way to find and match just the reply lead-ins (e.g., >>"On some date, John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:", or > >This form should cover almost all the cases, and the PCYMTNQREAIYR >messages can be limited to those special cases where violations occur. > >>are varied enough that it's probably not possible. > >I suppose this was an issue a few years ago when people used a large >variety of software, but today most mail readers use the first form.
There are a number of people here who use other forms. >From CGF's reply, it seems like a proprietary solution is being used >for mailing list management (this is the point where I would plug Open >Source software :-)), so this whole discussion is rather pointless. It's not proprietary software. It's a perl script, written by me. cgf -- 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/
