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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:49:03 -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 11:36:41AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>Great.  Lacking the information, I didn't want to make any statements
>about your degree of interest in this, but in light of the above my
>earlier sentense should probably say
>
>"...the list maintainers will be grateful for any help in doing this, and
>will probably want to try out suitably tested filters..."
>
>If anyone volunteers to help, I'm assuming you'd be willing to provide the
>sample filter as a basis, as well as the information on where to send
>patches, etc.

While the free software, collaborative philsophy is usually a good thing,
this really requires a few concentrated hours from me to hack on the
sourceware spam filters.  I wouldn't want to have someone else learn
its intricacies.

cgf

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