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["Adam Bernstein" <address@concealed>]

Russ Kepler wrote:
> Is there some configuration parameter for hiding the email addresses of 
> archived postings?  I'm a little bit concerned that someone could fairly 
> easily write an address harvester and I'd like to make it a bit difficult.

I made two changes to the ~sympa/etc/mhonarc-ressources file (neither of which
involved correcting the misspelling of the name ;) for this same reason:

 1. Add a line saying "<SPAMMODE>", which tells MHonArc to replace the domain
    parts of all From: addresses with xxxxxxx within all archived messages.  I
    added this line after the <MIMEARGS></MIMEARGS> resource, but I think it
    can go anywhere.

 2. Change this line, which appears 4 times:
            <LI><b> $SUBJECT$ </b> <code>$FROMADDR$</code>
    to this line:
            <LI><b> $SUBJECT$ </b> -- <code>$FROMNAME$</code>
    This replaces the sender's address with their name in the index listing
    of archived messages, with the dashes added only for cosmetic reasons.

There's another change I haven't managed yet, which is substituting the
user's name for email address as the owner of files in the document sharing
area.  Slightly trickier, and certainly less critical.

   adam
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