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[yak@collab] Re: opinions on mail archiving policy

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From: "Peter P. Jones" <ppj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:13:09 +0100
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How about wiping email addresses from the mails, but providing a link 
under the author's name that would fetch a re-written version of the 
address into a small window e.g.    (01)

@# joe        
!# @          
+# sixpack.
&# org    (02)

and display it (with those line-start chars being jumbled around).
It might not be too hard to generate random noise around the address.    (03)

as9d8f7f0a987fd6joe8asd98fas09f87
asd987a08f7t@7a0ds987a0ds87sadf70
salkfjadsf987fsd4sixpack.ea0s9f70
09a87f098asd0973org3asd8708asd07a    (04)

But paint the address terms a different colour from the rest of the 
text. Not sure how to cater for accessibility though...    (05)

Thoughts?    (06)

-- 
Peter     (07)



On 7 Jul 2004 at 22:20, Eugene Eric Kim wrote:    (08)

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:54:56PM -0700, Jack Park wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, there are still people who use email clients which
> > thoughtlessly (though presumed to be helpful) put the whole damned
> > return address back into the body, as if:
> > 
> > JoeSixpack at joe@sixpack.org recently stated:...
> 
> Not a problem.  We can write a filter that obscures addresses within
> the message body as well.
> 
> The plan right now is:
> 
>   * Archives are publically available, except the email addresses in
>     both the headers and body are obscured.
> 
>   * Email addresses are unobscured when people log into the system.
> 
> I'm not crazy about this, because there are often legitimate reasons
> for wanting to know someone's email addresses from an archived
> message, and having to have an account to get access seems lame.  Then
> again, our support for e-names will make this far more acceptable.
> 
> -Eugene
> 
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>     (09)


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