On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Replying to Philip, I think obfuscating all the email addresses within an email isn't such a bad idea ... we are not touching the headers, are we?
Ok, let's look at some examples:
1.
How do I unsubscribe from this list?
Send mail to linuxers-request@mm.ilug-bom.org.in with unsubscribe....
mailman converts it to:
Send mail to linuxers-request@mm.il.....
(This is what yahoogroups does btw).
yes, converting the @ to [at] makes sense, but then the link is no longer clickable. In this particular example, munging the address gained nothing, but lossage was high.
2.
Wanted linux programmers, 2 years experience. Send resumes to jobs@mycompany.com
mailman converts it to:
Wanted linux programmers, 2 years experience. Send resumes to jobs@myc...
Not much use now. Ok, so this only happens on the archives, but it's still loss of information.
Some more examples:
3. I want to configure my sendmail so that all mail to user@domain1.com goes to user_domain1@domain2.com. What to do?
mailman converts it to:
I want to configure my sendmail so that all mail to user@dom... goes to user_domain1@dom.... What to do?
Huh???
4. SMTP tutorial:
MAIL FROM: user@host.domain
converts to:
SMTP tutorial:
MAIL FROM: <user@hos...>
Lossage!!
So, throw in your counter arguments, I'm prepared to defend ;)