Re: [META] Other mailing list ideas

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 10:52 PM 12/15/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote:
>I'm toying with the idea of having the mailing list software munge
>certain types of mailing list addresses in the body of a message
>as it comes in, before it is archived or sent out.
>
>The patterns I'd look for are something like:
>
>  aaaspam@sourceware.org writes:
>munged to
>  aaaspam writes:
>
>  <aaaspam@sourceware.org> writes:
>munged to
>   aaaspam writes:
>
>  Albert A. Aspam <aaaspam@sourceware.org> writes:
>munged to
>  Albert A. Aspam writes:
>
>  >.*aaaspam@sourceware.org
>munged to
>  >.*aaaspam
>
>
>  From: Albert A. Spam <aaaspam@sourceware.org>
>munged to
>  From: Albert A. Spam
>
>  From: <aaaspam@sourceware.org>
>munged to
>  From: aaaspam
>
>etc.
>
>Any objections to this?  This should leave email addresses in signatures
>and in ChangeLogs alone while catching the majority of the abuses, I think.
>
>We'd also talked a while ago about adding something like a --EOF-- flag
>which could be put in a message to cause the mailing list software to
>ignore everything after that point.  This would allow the opt-in removal
>of those multi-line disclaimers that everyone loves.


I'd LOVE this!



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