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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:08:48 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 09:32:03AM -0400, 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).
>
>Elvin,
>
>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...

I still have it on my back burner to do some kind of intelligent munging
of email.  I wrote a sample filter that sort of worked but it needed more
intelligence to be really useful.

Unfortunately real life has been stomping hard on me in the last few months
so I haven't gotten around to doing this.  I would love to not have to
keep telling people not to quote raw email addresses, though.

cgf

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