On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:36:41AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >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.
While the free software, collaborative philsophy is usually a good thing, this really requires a few concentrated hours from me to hack on the sourceware spam filters. I wouldn't want to have someone else learn its intricacies. 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/
