[Mailman-Developers] Re: "@" in mail **text** gets replaced in archives

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Martin Maechler wrote:

> >>>>> "Roger" == Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
> >>>>>     on Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:26:58 +0200 (CEST) writes:
> 
>     .....
> 
> 
>     Roger> The second thing, ...: my answer on r-help to a pixmap question 
>     Roger> was:
> 
>     Roger> ...
>     Roger> xx at col[1:20]
>     Roger> ...
> 
>     Roger> which in the archives is rendered:
> 
>     Roger> ...
>     Roger> xx at col[1:20]
>     Roger> ...
> 
> aaarg!
> 
> The mailman-builtin archiving engine (pipermail) is really not that
> great....
> 
> At the moment I have to stay with it.
> I can only switch back to  keep e-mail addresses unaltered.
> which caters to the spammers address-collection robots...
> 
> Of course that's a bug in mailman/pipermail
> ===> forwarding to the developers.

I could see that they would try to convert all "@", but actually the hits 
should be "@" followed by a dot-separated address, at least one dot, 
shouldn't they? Regexp? Python can do that, I'm sure. Turning off 
protection would be a last resort, really.

Roger Bivand

Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no