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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [META] Other mailing list ideas Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:26:17 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Dec 2003 10:26:17.0682 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A613B20:01C3C3BF] X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hBGAQr7I003624 Absolutely ! I am sure that this would do a lot to help - a great idea. Kevin. | -----Original Message----- | From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com | [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf | Of Larry Hall | Sent: 16 December 2003 04:32 | To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com | Subject: Re: [META] Other mailing list ideas | | | 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/ | | -- 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/