Well then - if you want to obfuscate anything that looks like an
email address EXCEPT an email address representing one of the 5000+
lists being archived here, then really the only way to do that is
to have a hash of all the list addresses and check for those in the
<AddressModifyCode> section.
if ($ENV{'MAILLIST'} eq $address) {
then becomes
if ( exists( $MailLists{$address} ) ) {
John
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Jeff Breidenbach <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are two cases that are very common and handled poorly. One
> is an http hyperlink to mail-archive.com as we've been discussing.
> The other is a a mailto hyperlink. These are correctly obfuscated,
> but end up as a broken link. Better to not have a link than a broken one.
>
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01612.html
>
>
> I'm wary of preserving things that look like email addresses in other
> ftp | rsync | http URLs. Mainly because these might be actual email
> addresses. Aside from address harvesting spambot issues, they
> can generate very vocal complaints by folks searching for their email
> address in global search engines.
>
>
> I'm happy to patch mhonarc, and impressed by all the energy on this
> thread.
>
>
> -Jeff
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