[Mailman-Developers] Serious Archiving problem in 2.1.7

[Mark Sapiro]

There is a potentially serious archiving problem in 2.1.7 involving a
UnicodeError when obscuring email addresses in the body of posts
destined for the .txt file.

The problem is reported at
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1395683&group_id=103&atid=100103>
and was also reported by a different user on the mailman-users list at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-January/048413.html>.

I observed one manifestation of this myself and mentioned it to Tokio
and Barry, but I didn't have time to follow up before going away last
week.

The problem can abort a bin/arch run and can also result in a list post
not being archived (it will be shunted in this case).

I have worked up a patch which avoids the problem in all the cases I
have seen. (My original patch simply ignored the UnicodeError which
allowed unobscured email addresses in the .txt file for the problem
messages - my current patch avoids the UnicodeError so addresses are
properly obscured). The patch is attached to the above tracker item.

The purpose of this post is twofold. First, I would like independent
review of the patch, as I still don't fully understand the reason for
the error in all cases and the i18n implications.

Second, other than committing the patch to CVS, is there a mechanism
for making it more widely visible.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan