Hello all!
I've just been contracted to modify a specific mailman installation so that email addresses cannot be harvested by spammers. Rather than go and do the mods completely on my own, I decided it would make more sense to coordinate my efforts with the larger open-source developer community.
About me: I've been writing code since I was 8 years old. I've done a *lot* of development in Perl; significant amounts in C++, Java, JavaScript, and PHP; and smaller amounts in quite a few other languages (Pascal, DCL, assembler, VB, etc.). I pick up computer languages *very* quickly, so I don't think I'll have any trouble learning enough Python to get this job done. However, I'm entirely new to this open-source collaboration thing -- I have only the vaguest idea of how to use CVS, for example -- so I hope someone can point me to the information I'll need so as not to make a complete ass of myself :)
I noticed in the TODO list there was one item about creating a form interface to discourage email harvesting. Is there a more detailed spec for this project available? or has it not been nailed down any more than what's listed on the TODO page? I'm not sure if this will satisfy my client's requirements, but it seems to be a good place to start.
-jason
On Fredag den 21. februar 2003 05:55, dancerboy wrote:
Hello all!
I've just been contracted to modify a specific mailman installation so that email addresses cannot be harvested by spammers. Rather than go and do the mods completely on my own, I decided it would make more sense to coordinate my efforts with the larger open-source developer community.
About me: I've been writing code since I was 8 years old. I've done a *lot* of development in Perl; significant amounts in C++, Java, JavaScript, and PHP; and smaller amounts in quite a few other languages (Pascal, DCL, assembler, VB, etc.). I pick up computer languages *very* quickly, so I don't think I'll have any trouble learning enough Python to get this job done. However, I'm entirely new to this open-source collaboration thing -- I have only the vaguest idea of how to use CVS, for example -- so I hope someone can point me to the information I'll need so as not to make a complete ass of myself :)
I noticed in the TODO list there was one item about creating a form interface to discourage email harvesting. Is there a more detailed spec for this project available? or has it not been nailed down any more than what's listed on the TODO page? I'm not sure if this will satisfy my client's requirements, but it seems to be a good place to start.
I'm a mailman newbie myself but please note that it is currently possible to prohibit email harvesting using the privacy options. If you in addition make the archive private (see my recent post) this ought to be good enough. Note that this is possible using the webinterface availible to the lists administrator (or using the comman line). If these options does not seem to be availible - are you sure you're running the newest version?
/Kasper
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