Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:08:48 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies. Message-ID: <20040712150848.GB9325@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040712055642.99987.qmail@web52209.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/