Mailman/Pipermail Email Address Obsfucation

Hi, Does anybody her have experience in obsfucating email addresses in list archives to prevent spam harvesting using pipermail/mailman. The standard mailman privacy options only seem to apply to mailman configuration / list information pages not the archives which are generated by pipermail, and pipermail seems to be extinct. I would like all email addresses in the archives to appear as From: Matt Brown <matt(a)m...> rather than From: Matt Brown <matt(a)myrealdomain.com> Is anybody able to offer a solution to this problem? Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz

This is what your message looks like in our WLUG archives, which uses mailman/pipermail: <quote> [wlug] Mailman/Pipermail Email Address Obsfucation Matt Brown matt(a)m... Wed Sep 3 14:33:31 NZST 2003 * Previous message: [wlug] help with backup options * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Hi, Does anybody her have experience in obsfucating email addresses in list archives to prevent spam harvesting using pipermail/mailman. The standard mailman privacy options only seem to apply to mailman configuration / list information pages not the archives which are generated by pipermail, and pipermail seems to be extinct. I would like all email addresses in the archives to appear as From: Matt Brown <matt(a)m...> rather than From: Matt Brown <matt(a)m...> Is anybody able to offer a solution to this problem? Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)m... </quote> So... yeah, there's your solution. If you were referring to the WLUG list, and not any mailman/pipermail setup, then it's already done. If you're actually wanting to know which mailman setting you need to play with, it's the obscure_addresses option. -k. On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:33:31PM +1200, Matt Brown wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody her have experience in obsfucating email addresses in list archives to prevent spam harvesting using pipermail/mailman. The standard mailman privacy options only seem to apply to mailman configuration / list information pages not the archives which are generated by pipermail, and pipermail seems to be extinct.
I would like all email addresses in the archives to appear as From: Matt Brown <matt(a)m...> rather than From: Matt Brown <matt(a)myrealdomain.com>
Is anybody able to offer a solution to this problem?

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Kim Shepherd wrote:
So... yeah, there's your solution. If you were referring to the WLUG list, and not any mailman/pipermail setup, then it's already done. If you're actually wanting to know which mailman setting you need to play with, it's the obscure_addresses option.
This isn't standard Mailman however, I had to modify HyperArch.py By default 'obscure' just replaces @ with ' at ' in addresses and turns them into mailto:s pointing to the list. Here's a patch that does Yahoo! style munging instead: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/patches/mm21-hyperarch-munge.diff You'll also want to configure your web server to deny access to the 'listname.mbox' files that HyperArch leaves around since they've still got unmunged addresses in them. -- ** Colin Palmer, Systems and Development Group, University of Waikato, NZ **
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