[Mailman-Users] Recovering the virtual-mailman file

2004-09-26 Thread Eric Pretorious
Hello, All: I ran `bin/genaliases` this morning and it emptied my data/virtual-mailman file. Is there any way to recover this file? e.g., maybe from the data/virtual-mailman.db file? -- Eric P., Sunnyvale, CA -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:11 PM -0700 2004-09-26, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you were going to take the "keep only these" approach rather than the "delete these" approach, you'd have to keep more than Subject:. If you're going to be serious about anonymizing something, you have no choice but to strip everything but cer

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Richard Barrett
My 2 cents. This thread smacks of trying to adapt Mailman to be an anonymising remailer and I am not sure that is a suitable objective. Brad is right in saying that suppressing all information alluding to the originator of a posting requires gutting the message of a fair number of headers of

Re: [Mailman-Users] topic regep exclude

2004-09-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Howard Moscovitz wrote: >Mark Sapiro wrote: > >>Howard Moscovitz wrote: >> >> >> >>>In the topic definition form, how can one specify a topic that is only >>>messages that DOES NOT have the string [G2] in it. >>> >>> >> >>see http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html >> >>I would try >> >>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >At 7:30 PM +0200 2004-09-26, Brad Knowles quoted Mark Sapiro: > >>> The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be >>> appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from >>> posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Douglas McCarroll
Thanks to all of you who have responded. I'm concluding that I can live with current "anonymous" functionality. :) -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.pyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:30 PM +0200 2004-09-26, Brad Knowles quoted Mark Sapiro: The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post got from source to list when you w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:59 AM -0400 2004-09-26, Douglas McCarroll wrote: Even with the anonymous function? You may not be the right person to address this question to, but I can't help but wonder why a program like MailMan couldn't simply create a new email and copy only subject and body. This sort of thing would

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:34 AM -0700 2004-09-26, Mark Sapiro wrote: The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post got from source to list when you want to make the so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Dan Phillips
On Sep 26, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Before posting the above, I tested this on Mailman 2.1.4, and it doesn't remove any Received: headers on anonymous lists. I don't know for sure about 2.1.5 without looking at code changes, but there's no mention of any change in the 2.1.5 NEWS file.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Douglas McCarroll wrote: > > The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be > > appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from > > posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post got > > from source to list when you want to make the source anony

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Douglas McCarroll
> The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be > appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from > posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post got > from source to list when you want to make the source anonymous? Precisely. :) Do you know f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: > >I wonder though if any of this is necessary. Just as a point of clarification, you may wonder why I seem to be minimizing the importance of discernable e-mail addresses in Received: headers when I'm the one who raised the issue in the first place. Originally, I thought you w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Douglas McCarroll wrote: > >Brad, > >> Display this where? > >My goal is to hide the sender's email address, in all places, to prevent harvest >by spammers. > > >Mark, > >> You can make your list anonymous (anonymous_list = Yes on the General >> Options page) which puts the list rather than the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

2004-09-26 Thread Douglas McCarroll
Brad and Mark, Thanks for your responses! Brad, Display this where? My goal is to hide the sender's email address, in all places, to prevent harvest by spammers. Mark, You can make your list anonymous (anonymous_list = Yes on the General Options page) which puts the list rather than the sender