[GZG] LISTADMIN or LIST ARCHIVE ADMIN question

2 posts ยท Feb 3 2006 to Feb 3 2006

From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>

Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:32:45 -0500

Subject: [GZG] LISTADMIN or LIST ARCHIVE ADMIN question

This pertains to gzg-l archives.

I notice that, in the gzg-l archives, some lovely little internal
defence protocol mangles
> From addresses in archived posts (replacing @some.valid.domain with

But, I've also noticed that many people, when coughing out canned replies
using the 'Reply' button on their email client, generate "Tom B
<emailname@some.valid.domain> said:" or the like and this is in the body of
the email.

I notice also that this email address is NOT mangled. Is there any way to get
the list archive software to apply the same display logic to email addresses
in the body of the posts? Otherwise the mangling is nearly useless, from what
I've seen. It would be very
easy to scrape the pages as they currently are to acquire e-mail
addresses, because mangling the To: address just doesn't cut it when the
address promptly appears in replies.

So, I'm not sure if this is a question of generating the archives differently
or displaying them differently in the archives. I don't actually know where
the email name mangling goes on. But wherever that is, perhaps whomever is
responsible can comment if this discipline could also be applied to email
bodies to prevent scrapeable addresses from being put out in the archives.

Tom B

From: Matthew Seidl <seidl@v...>

Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:52:04 -0700

Subject: Re: [GZG] LISTADMIN or LIST ARCHIVE ADMIN question

> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:32:45 -0500, "Thomas Barclay" writes:

Which archives? If you're talking about the mailman archives
(lists.csua.berkeley.edu) then I can try to take a look next week. If youre
talking about the other archives, then I won't take a look next
week. :)