Re: List online archives and spam

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: greg(at)turnstep(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: List online archives and spam
Date: 2003-02-07 15:16:29
Message-ID: 20030207151629.GA5605@wolff.to
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 22:25:39 -0400,
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
>
> The problem is that I've had ppl request that the mail'ng address be
> mailto:'d so that they can reply to someone's mail if they find it in a
> search of the archives ...
>
> ... now, that said, if someone knows what (if?) I can add to the mhonarc
> resource file in order to 'mask' the addresses, I'd be willing to make the
> change as well as regenerate the existing archives ...

It seems even more pointless to suppress the visible address, but add a
mailto link.

A possible option for people is to subscribe under a list specific address.
A good mail filter and client could have this address used automatically
when mailing the list and drop all messages to the address that didn't
go through the list (and you could use reply-to to force responses back
to the list).

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