[ncl-talk] List archive is mangling attributes

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Mary,

Well, let's call this a low priority issue.  My personal preference would
be to stick with Mailman which I think is a really good list solution,
overall.  Concealing addresses is more important than the occasional
mangled attribute, I think.

--Dave


On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> I set an option inside mailman to turn off the munging of email addresses.
> Let's see what that does, after a few messages have been posted. I have a
> feeling this is not going to be enough.
>
> While your solution is a good one, I honestly don't have the time at the
> moment to try to figure out how to configure mailman to do this. A quick
> look through the mailman options, and a googling of this problem didn't
> turn anything up right away. I think our IT department wishes we weren't
> using mailman at all, but I like it because of the way it archives
> messages.
>
> If folks have suggestions of other software packages for managing public
> email lists that do a good job of hiding email messages and not munging
> valid code, I'd love to hear from you.  :-)
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <
> dave.allured at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Mary,
>>
>> Would it be possible to tighten the pattern check?  Look for A at B.C,
>> where B and C are unbroken alphanumeric, separated by a single dot.  If the
>> pattern is not matched, then don't conceal the "at" sign.  This should be
>> sufficient for almost all Netcdf attribute cases, I think.
>>
>> Also, is there any chance this was improved in Mailman, since your last
>> software update?
>>
>> --Dave
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> This is a tough one, because I think that the "@" is getting mangled so
>>> that email addresses show up as "haley at ucar.edu"
>>>
>>> Honestly, though, it's not hard for spammers to look for this sort of
>>> thing and replace it with the correct email address.
>>>
>>> Let me think on this.  I think it's just a setting in mailman to turn
>>> this on or off.
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <
>>> dave.allured at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>> NCL support,
>>>>
>>>> Did you notice that attribute references are getting mangled in the
>>>> mailing list archive?  On November 15 I wrote this:
>>>>
>>>>     opt at fout = "foo.txt"
>>>>     (with the "at" symbol)
>>>>
>>>> But that got mangled in the archive.  This isn't going to work:
>>>>
>>>>     opt at fout = "foo.txt"
>>>>     (with the word "at" and extra spaces)
>>>>
>>>> http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/2017-November/010745.html
>>>>
>>>> Other messages show the same problem.  Can this be fixed?
>>>>
>>>> --Dave
>>>>
>>>
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