I HATE SPAM (was Re: Mouse swapping on a laptop)

[Bill Sconce]

> 
> I vote that we:
> 
> 1:  Not require people to strip email addresses from the headers and
>     body of posts.  This is too much work.  Humans shouldn't have to
>     do this.
> 
> 2:  Keep the archive going, keep it world-accessible
> 
> 3:  Obfuscate email addresses in the web-archives.  Many, many lists
>     that I am on do this already -- it makes sense.
> 
> 
> WRT (3) above, I propose that we either configure our web-archiver to
> do this (if it already does this), or else we just do this ourselves.
> To this end, I have written (***) a Perl filter that does this
> automagically.  This filter could be used to filter our existing
> archives, or it could be used from a procmail script inside the
> web-archiving box in order to obfuscate all future postings.
> 
> *** This is basically Jeff Friedl's well-known email regexp, combined
>     with around 3 lines of my own code at the bottom.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --kevin
> -- 
> "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know,
>  I'll use regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems."
> 
>       -- Jamie Zawinski
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