Mailling List Archives

[Stephen Burke]

Did you use -addressmodifycode at the command line or rewrite 
/usr/bin/mhonarc, or what?

The command line way keeps complaining with:

This is MHonArc v2.6.12, Perl 5.008 linux
Array found where operator expected at (eval 6) line 4, at end of line
         (Missing operator before ?)

ERROR: Unable to create rewrite_address routine:
syntax error at (eval 6) line 4, near "address at hidden"

the command I used was:

mhonarc /home/qfwfq/.mozilla/qfwfq/02sk2223.slt/Mail/Local\ 
Folders/nflug_in -addressmodifycode $_ = 'address at hidden';

Clearly, I need to understand perl better, but for the sake of getting 
this stuff into the archive, can you give me a hint on how you went 
address munging?

Thanks,
S.

John Seth wrote:
> I've been fiddling around with MHonArc's mailling list script, and found 
> it really easy to modify, and here I was expecting a daunting task to 
> remove all email addresses ;)
> 
> Anyhow... the archives now have munged the addresses so that all domains 
> are "@HIDDEN.DOMAIN".  The only _slight_ downfall is, some messages may 
> not be easy to know who posted it.
> 
> If no one has any issues with what's displayed, I think it's now fairly 
> safe to link to from the main webpage... thoughts?
> 
>    http://www.nflug.com/archives/
> 
> - Tony
> 
> 
> 
> Cyber Source wrote:
> 
>> ok cool
>>
>> John Seth wrote:
>>
>>> That is true, and is one reason why the archives are not linked to 
>>> from the main webpage, but must be accessed directly. The only way a 
>>> spider or other email harvesting bot could obtain the email addresses 
>>> is to have someone else link to the archives somewhere other than 
>>> NFLUG's list.
>>>
>>> Until I find a way to accomplish a good munge, or just remove the 
>>> email addresses from the archive process, I personally, will not link 
>>> to them anywhere on the web.
>>>
>>> - Tony
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 07:37:29 -0400
>>> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
>>> To: nflug at nflug.org
>>> Subject: Re: Mailling List Archives
>>>
>>> There is one small problem with that and correct me if I'm wrong but
>>> whenever I create web pages for people I purposely keep there email
>>> addresses out of the pages directly. Couldn't a bod spider through those
>>> archives now and pickup all the email addresses therein? I know that you
>>> have to be a member for the nflug site itself to forward emails but the
>>> members email addresses themselves are in those archives. Fortunately, I
>>> have spamassasin doing a very nice job on our email servers but for
>>> those without such protection, they may start to get pounded with spam.
>>> Is there not a way to have your perl script mangle the members email
>>> addresses or strip them off altogether? I think what you've done for the
>>> list is great but I also think this could lead to a spam problem. Any
>>> other thoughts?
>>>
>>> John Seth wrote:
>>>
>>> > Just an update for those that are interested. I recently came across a
>>> > perl program that converts mailbox format inboxes to HTML and creates
>>> > the HTML pages for date & thread sorted displays. I stopped myself
>>> > from deleting any email coming in from the list, and gathered up what
>>> > I had previously and new, and threw them into an mbox formatted file,
>>> > and converted them.
>>> >
>>> > What I have kept, is now archived on the NFLUG.com website, and I now
>>> > have my mail server saving and converting any new email from the
>>> > mailing list. Currently, about once a week I will update the archives
>>> > to ensure it is working as desired, then... I'll make it a twice daily
>>> > thing most likely, and archive on a per month basis.
>>> >
>>> > If anyone has not deleted any email, and perhaps has all the NFLUG
>>> > email in a single file... feel free to email it to me :) or burn it to
>>> > cd and snail-mail it (or hand deliver if ya feel like driving to
>>> > Fredonia). I'll be more than happy, and anxious, to get archives up
>>> > for the list.
>>> >
>>> > You can view the current archives at:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.nflug.com/archives/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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