[Mailman-Users] Problem with Underscores

[David Relson]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:36:09 -0700
Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Mark Sapiro wrote:
> 
> >Mark Sapiro wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the report. This bug still exists in 2.1.11. The
> >> following patch is totally untested, but I think it will fix it
> >> for '_'. I'll have to think about other non-alphanumeric
> >> characters. At least it will point to the right place in the code.
> >
> >
> >Here's a better patch. It has been lightly tested, and will work for
> >any non-alphanumeric characters.
> >
> >--- Mailman/Cgi/admin.py        2007-05-08 03:16:04 +0000
> >+++ Mailman/Cgi/admin.py        2008-07-28 00:17:06 +0000
> >@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >-# Copyright (C) 1998-2007 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >+# Copyright (C) 1998-2008 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >  #
> >  # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> >  # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> <snip>
> 
> Somehow the indentation got garbled in the patch in the last post. The
> lines without leading + or - are indented an extra space. This time I
> have attached the patch as the file admin.patch.txt. The patch is the
> same, but should be properly indented in the attachment.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

Mark,

The patch works like a charm!  

Two of my lists had "_SubscriberName at example.com" entries.  With the
"hidden" first character, different SubscriberNames and the same
company names, the suspicion is of a spammer harvesting reply
addresses.  The "_" entries are now unsubscribed.

Thank You!

David