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



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