Clare Redstone writes: > I can warn everyone about this and suggest that, if they don't want > their details revealed, they only use an address that they won't > set out of office.
As Mark said, this is in some sense the best you can do. It's not really possible to filter on "contact details", although "phone number" could be done (assuming you know that you have a certain country's phone number, and that country isn't Japan, which has almost as many phone number formats as it does phones). But you'd need to moderate and edit the messages by hand; automatically removing contact details is beyond the state of the art at the moment. > But is there anything else I can do? Privacy is important in our > group so I would like to do what I can, Note that in U.S. law in some jurisdictions, you may be liable for damages if you make an attempt to protect a person and fail[1], while no liability is incurred if you do nothing. Sad but true. Talk to your lawyer. That said, you can filter out signatures. There's a standard "in message" format, which assumes that everything following a line containing *exactly* two hyphens followed by a space, no more and no less, is a signature. The details of actually removing the signature are somewhat messy (everything in mail is between somewhat messy and "after the bomb hit"), and many people (and the occasional "professional" program) set up the signature wrong, so it's smart-people-proof, but fool-weak. There are other standard ways to set up a signature, too, and you could filter those out as well. However, automatically editing messages is almost certain to result in lost information at some point, and there is no way to guarantee you'll catch all inadvertant revelations. > Meantime, I may unsubscribe this person so no-one else gets her out > of office message. Set such subscribers to no-mail, instead. Then they don't lose any personal settings and can turn the list back on for themselves when they return. If there are private archives, they can continue to access those. Note that Mailman private archives are not terribly secure by default; you might not want to allow access even with in the privacy setting. Footnotes: [1] It used to be said that in New York City you could tell the lawyers' houses in winter time because they didn't shovel snow off their sidewalks. A shoveled walk is more likely to be icy and slick. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org