Ok, i thought i wouldnt reply to this thread...

but how hard isnt it to do a regexp substitute?

's/\ (at)\ /\@/'

bash-2.03$ echo "foo (at) bar.com" | sed 's/\ (at)\ /\@/'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bash-2.03$

the best way is to exclude everything but the name in the
email...

/kama

"Before you criticize a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes.
That way, you are a mile away from him. And you've got his shoes."

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Simon Garner wrote:

> From: "HoundDawg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >
> > HoundDawg < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Behalf of HoundDawg < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> >
> > It's currently like this:
> >
> > HoundDawg < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> >
> > Which can easily be grabbed and submitted to spam sites...and has for
> which
> > I have many filter rules to have these auto deleted. =\  The only problem
> is
> > that it will be more difficult for people to take things off the list as
> > they won't have the private email address anymore.
> >
>
> I think not having the real sender's address would be a pain for the reason
> you have stated.
>
> Really the fault lies with mail-archive.com -- any decent list->web archive
> site should be mangling all email addresses (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> bar (at)
> foo.com), but they are not. I suggest disallowing them from archiving this
> list until they can fix their software.
>
> -Simon
>
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