On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:44:46 +0530 Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:56:09AM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
Each of us will have to tell our MUAs not to do that - rather impractical. Or there'll have to be a pattern recog that's run on all messages and systematically obscures all email-address-like patterns. Somewhat practical, but who'll supply the computing power?
Do you mean to say that we extend mailman to obfuscate the email addresses in the archives as well as messages that are sent out to the list??
Archives, yes. Outgoing messages, no. This needs to be done on the message bodies only. And what I meant by "obscures ... patterns" is to have them written like "foo[at]bar[dot]com" etc. and not necessarily obscured beyond recognition. Also, most harvesters don't even bother to check patterns. They just look for mailto: hyperlinks. Disabling the hyperlinking of email addresses itself can go a long way and will actually reduce some of the complexity of the archiving program :-)