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Re: [META] Other mailing list ideas
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:31:43 -0500
- Subject: Re: [META] Other mailing list ideas
- References: <20031216035255.GA709@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin 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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