Re: [ILUG-BOM] mailman [was: Spam]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Tahir Hashmi wrote:

1. Disable hyperlinking. People are generally smart enough to copy and

paste email addresses into their mail clients.

no problem here.

2. Optionally, replace @ with [at] when it appears between

alphanumerics.

yes problem here. see my examples 3 and 4. In both those examples, it becomes unclear if the list software automatically s/// addresses.

IMO, a mailing list software should *never* alter the content of a message. If someone wants an email address to show up, he should have the right to do that.

We can start off with this. Then we can start autowrapping long lines, and maybe fix microsoft smart quotes (I've already got perl one-liners that do both of these).

I don't believe changing the content of a message is The Right Thing to do.

Philip