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Re: Configure a mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in replies (was: help with gcc)


On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:

> "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message :
> > Alex,
> >
> > Please configure your mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in your
> > replies -- let's not make it easier for the spam harvesters.  More below.
> >
> [snip]
> OE-QuoteFix has been recommended to do that :
> http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1ebcb6e9525fa75b
>
> Could you recommend another tool?

Sure.  Any reasonable mailer (e.g., pine, mutt, Thunderbird, Netscape
Messenger, Eudora, the Bat) can be configured to omit the raw e-mail
address when a proper name is supplied.  I'm sure the newsreaders are just
as configurable.  FWIW, I use pine.  AFAICS, QuoteFix is a plug-in for
MS Outlook that accomplishes the same thing...  Don't know if it could be
done natively in Outlook...

> By the way. Your original message contains the following signature
> (explicit e-mail address).
> > --
> > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
> >       |\      _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
> > ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com
> [snip]

Yes, I'm aware of that.  But it's my choice to display them -- I don't
expect you to do anything about them (except, maybe, optionally snip my
signature out of your replies, which, again, most reasonable mailers do).
Looking at your Google Groups posting, I believe you understood exactly
what I meant -- the e-mail address after a name in the "... wrote" string.
I'm mostly requesting this for others, who might unknowingly find their
e-mail addresses broadcasted for the whole world to see (since the
archives don't do address mangling in message bodies).
	Igor
P.S. Thanks for taking the effort to research this, BTW.
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