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Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 09:53:39AM -0700, Elvin Peterson wrote:
>--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
>>
>> > --- Larry Hall wrote:
>> > > Lots of email clients do this automatically.
>> >
>>>This should be done server side, by the mailing list manager. If you
>>>subscribe to any of the sourceforge lists, you will know that they do
>>>this automatically. Much better than requesting each person to do it
>>>everytime (something always gets through and then it is spam city).
>>
>>This wasn't an arbitrary decision. Both ways have been tried, and, in
>>general, it was not possible to reliably munge e-mail addresses (and
>>*only* e-mail addresses) in the archived messages. This garbled the
>>message contents, and so was turned off. The headers are still
>>munged...
>>
>>There might be a way to find and match just the reply lead-ins (e.g.,
>>"On some date, John Doe <jdoe@example.com> wrote:", or
>
>This form should cover almost all the cases, and the PCYMTNQREAIYR
>messages can be limited to those special cases where violations occur.
>
>>are varied enough that it's probably not possible.
>
>I suppose this was an issue a few years ago when people used a large
>variety of software, but today most mail readers use the first form.
There are a number of people here who use other forms.
>From CGF's reply, it seems like a proprietary solution is being used
>for mailing list management (this is the point where I would plug Open
>Source software :-)), so this whole discussion is rather pointless.
It's not proprietary software. It's a perl script, written by me.
cgf
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