Re: Replacing addresses
Chet Ramey wrote: > Chris Down wrote: > > Peter Cordes wrote: > >> Oh, also, the online bug-bash archive has a bad habbit of replacing > >> code with address@hidden. There was a whole thread about setting > >> PS1=whatever that is now a complete mystery to non-subscribers! > > > > Yes, let's please stop this useless obfuscation. If you *must* > > obfuscate, then it should at least be retrievable somehow that doesn't > > require clicking through tons of stuff. Besides, the list is archived in > > other places that don't do this, so it doesn't really help anyone. > > I think this is a global setting Yes. It is a global setting. And directly due to complaints from people when it wasn't used. People complain if it isn't there. People complain if it is there. > and probably does more good than the annoyance it causes. I don't think it can do much good. The idea is to hide your email address so that spammers don't know it and can't find it. And yet they use it for sending email. Hiding email addresses simply does not work. The genie of information is easier to escape from the lamp than to force back into it. Bob P.S. I looked over at the gmane.org archive to see how they handled things and there even my quoted '@' which obviously is not an email address got obfuscated to " ". So it appears there that no use of an at sign anywhere is allowed.
Re: Replacing addresses
Allodoxaphobia wrote: > Chris Down wrote: > > Peter Cordes wrote: > > > Oh, also, the online bug-bash archive has a bad habbit of replacing > > > code with address@hidden. There was a whole thread about setting > > > PS1=whatever that is now a complete mystery to non-subscribers! > > > > Yes, let's please stop this useless obfuscation. If you *must* > > obfuscate, then it should at least be retrievable somehow that doesn't > > require clicking through tons of stuff. Besides, the list is archived in > > other places that don't do this, so it doesn't really help anyone. > > rot13 :-) Doesn't help. The '@' isn't rotated and so the result still looks like an email address to the redaction code. $ echo u...@example.com | rot13 h...@rknzcyr.pbz Bob
Re: Replacing addresses
On 2013-11-28 13:01:49 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > I think this is a global setting Ouch. > and probably does more good than the annoyance it causes. I don't think so. From my anecdotal experience, I've only ever had it cause irritation when reading the archives. There are a million better ways to do it even if we want to do it. pgpRN1t7q1LTd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Replacing addresses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/13, 10:09 AM, Chris Down wrote: > On 2013-11-28 08:23:01 -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: >> Oh, also, the online bug-bash archive has a bad habbit of replacing >> code with address@hidden. There was a whole thread about setting >> PS1=whatever that is now a complete mystery to non-subscribers! > > Yes, let's please stop this useless obfuscation. If you *must* > obfuscate, then it should at least be retrievable somehow that doesn't > require clicking through tons of stuff. Besides, the list is archived in > other places that don't do this, so it doesn't really help anyone. I think this is a global setting and probably does more good than the annoyance it causes. Chet - -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlKXhQQACgkQu1hp8GTqdKtRlACfflH1rOT4Rwfl4i0zYfuT4Rz/ 5v4AnjlL0Q1ofENGR6CBD8K07GaWGSS/ =nYUL -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Replacing addresses
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:09:28 -0600, Chris Down wrote: > On 2013-11-28 08:23:01 -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: >> Oh, also, the online bug-bash archive has a bad habbit of replacing >> code with address@hidden. There was a whole thread about setting >> PS1=whatever that is now a complete mystery to non-subscribers! > > Yes, let's please stop this useless obfuscation. If you *must* > obfuscate, then it should at least be retrievable somehow that doesn't > require clicking through tons of stuff. Besides, the list is archived in > other places that don't do this, so it doesn't really help anyone. rot13 :-)
Replacing addresses
On 2013-11-28 08:23:01 -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > Oh, also, the online bug-bash archive has a bad habbit of replacing > code with address@hidden. There was a whole thread about setting > PS1=whatever that is now a complete mystery to non-subscribers! Yes, let's please stop this useless obfuscation. If you *must* obfuscate, then it should at least be retrievable somehow that doesn't require clicking through tons of stuff. Besides, the list is archived in other places that don't do this, so it doesn't really help anyone. pgpRYn_6bwkKA.pgp Description: PGP signature
