Mailling List Archives

[John Seth]

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
>>
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>> 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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