[Mailman-Developers] experienced newbie here...

[dancerboy]

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