Tim Chase wrote:
Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions:
"Me too, me too" and "Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting
addresses".
I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the
situation to clarify. Comments, anyone?
This is the vim list, after all...surely a quick regexp to mangle/hide
the email adderesses could be applied across any such files? I don't
know the inner workings of mbox (all in one file? multiple files in one
directory?), but some short work with argdo should take care of it :)
mbox is (IIUC) the format used by Thunderbird, Outlook Express (but not
Outlook), and many other mailers for what they misleadingly call "email
folders". Each "folder" is a single file (from the OS's viewpoint). Email
headers are included. Any munging I would do would be applied equally to
headers and body.
sh$ cd /path/to/vim/mbox
sh$ mkdir ../munged
sh$ cp * ../munged
sh$ cd ../munged
sh$ vim *
:set hidden
:argdo
%s/[EMAIL PROTECTED])+/\=substitute(substitute(submatch(0),
'\.', ' [DOT] ', 'g'), '@', ' [AT] NoSpAm.', 'g')/g
:wqa
sh$ cd ..
sh$ tar cvfz vim_ml.tgz munged
It may mung a bit more or less redacting than one actually wants, but
for the most part, it should stave off the fears that the OP is a spam
harvester. My inkling is that such is not the case...there are a lot
more fertile grounds for harvesting addresses than personally asking for
mbox files in a place as niche as the vim ML. And if targeting the
"mass audience", I suspect they would as for an Outlook/OE ".PST" file
instead of mbox :)
My Turing-test-o-meter is registering fairly high on the "it's a human"
scale. :)
-tim
Best regards,
Tony.
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See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving
the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting
that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The
college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious
and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to
rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective.
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