Hi. I am a member of four related mail lists. There is no search
capability, although they do archive the mail in monthly files available via
FTP. The Mail Archive FAQ explains how to transfer those archives, and I
pretty-much understand it.
I plan to propose to the members of those lists that we take advantage of
Mail Archive capabilities. Your service does not require such permission,
but these lists operate in a collegial fashion with many decisions made by
consensus.
One concern they would have would be privacy and e-mail address mining.
Reviewing several existing lists, I see that e-mail addresses are removed
from message headers, although they are left intact within the message
bodies.
Can lists at the Mail Archive be set up so that the bodies are filtered,
mangling the e-mail addresses? I have written a shell script that uses
'sed' to slightly mangle each e-mail address it finds. Here is an example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
becomes:
nobody at nowhere.com
or (original paranoid form):
ftp://nobody.att.nowhere.com
The script can be modified to mangle all the files in a directory which
match a desired pattern. Or perhaps the 'sed' line itself might be useable
from within MHonArc or some secondary filtering mechanism. For the curious,
here is that line:
sed -e
's/\([0-9A-Za-z._-]\)@\(\([0-9A-Za-z_-]\{1,\}\.\)\{1,\}[0-9A-Za-z_-]\)/\1
at \2/g' $filename >mangled/$filename
(The Yahoo mail client broke it into 3 lines, but it is supposed to be just
one.) Yeah, it's ugly as hell, but it works.
(FAQ note: Your FAQ says that the GeoCrawler service easily accepts
existing archives. I followed the link, but there appeared to be no info
describing how to do so. They don't even explain how to add new lists.
Maybe they are not accepting new lists right now. The Mail Archive seeems
like a great choice, though, even if it might be a one-time pain to use your
Perl program to bounce the e-mail within the existing archive files.)
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-- Rich
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