[GZG] LISTADMIN or LIST ARCHIVE ADMIN question

["Thomas Barclay" <kaladorn@xxxxxxxx>]

This pertains to gzg-l archives. 

I notice that, in the gzg-l archives, some lovely little internal defence protocol mangles
>From addresses in archived posts (replacing @some.valid.domain with @xxxxxxx). This is a
good and handy thing. 

But, I've also noticed that many people, when coughing out canned replies using the
'Reply' button on their email client, generate "Tom B <emailname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:"
or the like and this is in the body of the email. 

I notice also that this email address is NOT mangled. Is there any way to get the list
archive software to apply the same display logic to email addresses in the body of the
posts? Otherwise the mangling is nearly useless, from what I've seen. It would be very
easy to scrape the pages as they currently are to acquire e-mail addresses, because
mangling the To: address just doesn't cut it when the address promptly appears in replies. 

So, I'm not sure if this is a question of generating the archives differently or
displaying them differently in the archives. I don't actually know where the email name
mangling goes on. But wherever that is, perhaps whomever is responsible can comment if
this discipline could also be applied to email bodies to prevent scrapeable addresses from
being put out in the archives.

Tom B

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