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! |||| -- | Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com | RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office | 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX | Holliston, MA 01746 ||| -- | Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple | Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html | Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html | FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ || -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/