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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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

Great.  Lacking the information, I didn't want to make any statements
about your degree of interest in this, but in light of the above my
earlier sentense should probably say

"...the list maintainers will be grateful for any help in doing this, and
will probably want to try out suitably tested filters..."

If anyone volunteers to help, I'm assuming you'd be willing to provide the
sample filter as a basis, as well as the information on where to send
patches, etc.
	Igor
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