Hi all,

I posted:

I know users mail addresses are hidden in the archive but what about *my* (our) addresses? Many Mailman generated webpages have a mailto: link to the list owner. It would be a real drag for me if a spambot harvested that address because I can't really rename the mail address so I'd just have to put up with the spam. I searched the archives but I didn't see any mention of this issue.

I figured out a solution to my problem. Open source rocks. I added two links in file htmlformat.py starting around line 217...

class Link: def __init__(self, href, text, target=None): self.href = href self.text = text self.target = target

def Format(self, indent=0):
    texpr = ""
    if self.target != None:
        texpr = ' target="%s"' % self.target
    if self.href.find('mailto') == 0:   # NEW
            return '[mail address hidden from spambots]' # NEW
    return '<a href="%s"%s>%s</a>' % (HTMLFormatObject(self.href, indent),
                                      texpr,
                                      HTMLFormatObject(self.text, indent))

This hides most of the mailto's on my site. I also use the admin interface to change the "info" page for each list to remove the mailto's.

A more elegant patch would use the obfuscate mail addresses option to see if this should be done.

Hope this helps somebody.

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