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Re: Configure a mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in replies (was: help with gcc)
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message :
> > Alex,
> >
> > Please configure your mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in your
> > replies -- let's not make it easier for the spam harvesters. More below.
> >
> [snip]
> OE-QuoteFix has been recommended to do that :
> http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1ebcb6e9525fa75b
>
> Could you recommend another tool?
Sure. Any reasonable mailer (e.g., pine, mutt, Thunderbird, Netscape
Messenger, Eudora, the Bat) can be configured to omit the raw e-mail
address when a proper name is supplied. I'm sure the newsreaders are just
as configurable. FWIW, I use pine. AFAICS, QuoteFix is a plug-in for
MS Outlook that accomplishes the same thing... Don't know if it could be
done natively in Outlook...
> By the way. Your original message contains the following signature
> (explicit e-mail address).
> > --
> > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
> > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
> > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com
> [snip]
Yes, I'm aware of that. But it's my choice to display them -- I don't
expect you to do anything about them (except, maybe, optionally snip my
signature out of your replies, which, again, most reasonable mailers do).
Looking at your Google Groups posting, I believe you understood exactly
what I meant -- the e-mail address after a name in the "... wrote" string.
I'm mostly requesting this for others, who might unknowingly find their
e-mail addresses broadcasted for the whole world to see (since the
archives don't do address mangling in message bodies).
Igor
P.S. Thanks for taking the effort to research this, BTW.
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