FR: obscure email address in archives
When the obscure email address feature in the admin settings is
enabled, e-mail addresses are transformed into the format 'xxx AT xxx'
in the archives. This may have worked 5 years ago to prevent spam
harvesting. But it does not work anymore.
I've patched (well... butchered) my own install by modifying
HyperArch.py to simply output 'EMAIL HIDDEN' instead of the obscured e-
mail address, by replacing the regexes to a constant string at line 284.
I think a 'proper' feature like this would be a very welcome addition.
Right now, it would be trivial to write a script to harvest tens of
thousands of e-mail addresses from Mailman users...
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Joost Schuttelaar The Hague, NL
On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Joost Schuttelaar wrote:
When the obscure email address feature in the admin settings is
enabled, e-mail addresses are transformed into the format 'xxx AT
xxx' in the archives. This may have worked 5 years ago to prevent
spam harvesting. But it does not work anymore.I've patched (well... butchered) my own install by modifying
HyperArch.py to simply output 'EMAIL HIDDEN' instead of the obscured
e-mail address, by replacing the regexes to a constant string at
line 284.
Agreed. I'm in the process right now of separating Pipermail (from
the Mailman 3 branch) into its own project on Launchpad. Hopefully
this will enable and inspire folks to contribute changes to that
project.
I plan to structure it as a typical distutils-style project so that
it's very easy to integrate into Mailman, but separate enough that
it's useful on its own. You can follow the progress here:
https://launchpad.net/pipermail
-Barry
Joost Schuttelaar wrote:
When the obscure email address feature in the admin settings is
enabled, e-mail addresses are transformed into the format 'xxx AT xxx'
in the archives. This may have worked 5 years ago to prevent spam
harvesting. But it does not work anymore.
You may be interested in the thread "Proposed: remove address-obfuscation code from Mailman 3" starting at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2009-August/020741.html>.
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