I HATE SPAM [was ...]

[Bruce Dawson]

I suggest that we talk about/implement this during the picnic on 23 Aug!

--Bruce

> 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.>