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RE: [META] Other mailing list ideas
- From: <kevin dot lawton at bt dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:26:17 -0000
- Subject: RE: [META] Other mailing list ideas
Absolutely ! I am sure that this would do a lot to help - a great idea.
Kevin.
| -----Original Message-----
| From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
| [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
| Of Larry Hall
| Sent: 16 December 2003 04:32
| To: cygwin@cygwin.com
| Subject: Re: [META] Other mailing list ideas
|
|
| 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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