[TriLUG] Re: [messed up subject heading]

[Jon Carnes]

I think I can lick this by running the archives through a filter:
  sed 's/@[:alpha:]//' achive_file > archive_file.new

Then I simply replace the old archive files with the new ones.  If I
schedule my filter program to only do this on new files (created of modified
on the current day) and then cron it to run 5 minutes after the Mailman
archive program - and remember to push back the HTDig indexing another 5
minutes - then it should remove all the recognizable email addresses from
the archives...

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy P" <jeremyp at pobox.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:20 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] Re: [messed up subject heading]


> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, [iso-8859-1] Peter Long wrote:
>
> > I am a little concerned by the fact that the trilug mailing list
archives
> > are publicly searchable. What are the chances of a web-spider type thing
> > harvesting our email addresses from these archives?
> >
> > I have on two occasions received email from people not on the list
> > regarding questions I had posted on the list. I have no problem with
> > genuine email queries like that, but I dread the day that I start
getting
> > spam at this address.
>
> Hi,
>
> The mailing list archive munges the email address in the headers; all mail
> is listed as coming from "trilug at trilug.org"
> Look at:
> http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20020429/thread.html
>
> The only way your address would be posted is if someone quotes your
> address in their reply, or if you have it in a sig file or something.
>
> I think mailing list archives are a huge asset, and since this is a public
> list, spammers could join and get email addresses that way too.  I don't
> think there's a need to be too paranoid about it.
>
> By the way, your mail client did something really strange to the subject
> line.  In pine, it looks like this:
> Subject: [TriLUG]
>
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Concerns_about_public_mail_archives_(was:_The_Samba_Question_
you_posted_about
> _printing)?=
>
> So much for SquirrelMail being perfect.  Or maybe it's pine being
> wierd?
>
> --Jeremy
>
>
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