[ncl-talk] List archive is mangling attributes

[Mary Haley]

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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