Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20031215233114.036e14b0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:31:43 -0500 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: [META] Other mailing list ideas In-Reply-To: <20031216035255.GA709@redhat.com> References: <20031216035255 DOT GA709 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Note-from-DJ: This may be spam At 10:52 PM 12/15/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >I'm toying with the idea of having the mailing list software munge >certain types of mailing list addresses in the body of a message >as it comes in, before it is archived or sent out. > >The patterns I'd look for are something like: > > aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org writes: >munged to > aaaspam writes: > > writes: >munged to > aaaspam writes: > > Albert A. Aspam writes: >munged to > Albert A. Aspam writes: > > >.*aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org >munged to > >.*aaaspam > > > From: Albert A. Spam >munged to > From: Albert A. Spam > > From: >munged to > From: aaaspam > >etc. > >Any objections to this? This should leave email addresses in signatures >and in ChangeLogs alone while catching the majority of the abuses, I think. > >We'd also talked a while ago about adding something like a --EOF-- flag >which could be put in a message to cause the mailing list software to >ignore everything after that point. This would allow the opt-in removal >of those multi-line disclaimers that everyone loves. I'd LOVE this! -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/