Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions: "Me
too, me too" and "Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting addresses".
I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the situation
to clarify. Comments, anyone?
This is the vim list, after all...surely a quick regexp to
mangle/hide the email adderesses could be applied across any such
files? I don't know the inner workings of mbox (all in one file?
multiple files in one directory?), but some short work with
argdo should take care of it :)
sh$ cd /path/to/vim/mbox
sh$ mkdir ../munged
sh$ cp * ../munged
sh$ cd ../munged
sh$ vim *
:set hidden
:argdo
%s/[EMAIL PROTECTED])+/\=substitute(substitute(submatch(0),
'\.', ' [DOT] ', 'g'), '@', ' [AT] NoSpAm.', 'g')/g
:wqa
sh$ cd ..
sh$ tar cvfz vim_ml.tgz munged
It may mung a bit more or less redacting than one actually wants,
but for the most part, it should stave off the fears that the OP
is a spam harvester. My inkling is that such is not the
case...there are a lot more fertile grounds for harvesting
addresses than personally asking for mbox files in a place as
niche as the vim ML. And if targeting the "mass audience", I
suspect they would as for an Outlook/OE ".PST" file instead of
mbox :)
My Turing-test-o-meter is registering fairly high on the "it's a
human" scale. :)
-tim
