[H-GEN] Spammers using Humbug list archives

[Raymond Smith]

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Hi Greg,

Greg Black said:
> Unfortunately, because I had left my customary .sig at the end
> of the message (as seen at the bottom of this message), my real
> email address was provided to the spammer.

Bugger.

> I'd really like to see the Humbug list archives obfuscate all
> email addresses -- but if that's not possible, then I guess I'll
> have to abandon my habit of appending those details to my messages.

How would you define the rules to avoid mangling message contents?

It seems to me that a simple regex might not cut. Perhaps we would
get close enough by dropping 'standard' signatures (ie everything
following the last '-- ')? I suppose we could also try to match
subscriptions to text and censor based on that. Shouldn't be too
expensive with our list volume.

Cheers,

Raymond
-- 
raymond at humbug.org.au



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