[H-GEN] Spammers using Humbug list archives

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-10-13, Clinton Roy wrote:
> "Raymond Smith" <raymond at humbug.org.au> writes:
> 
> > How would you define the rules to avoid mangling message contents?
> Given that we have a list of subscribers, perhaps we could search for
> anything that looks like an email address and then only mangle it if
> it's subscribed?

Based on a quick scan of the archives, I'd say this won't work.
People tend to put different addresses in sigs than those that
they might be subscribed as.

My inclination would be to apply mangling only to stuff that
appears in a correctly-formatted sig (i.e., following a line
that consisted of exactly "-- ").  And the RE would be one that
did the same thing as the list archives do now with addresses in
the headers, something that our Perl weenies should be able to
perfect in a couple of femtoseconds :-)

Cheers, Greg

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