Re: changing ' dot ' and ' at ' to '.' and '@'

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:45:12 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Alan G Isaac <[email protected]> wrote:

AGI> Mahogany has IMO intelligent handling of email address
AGI> entry.  But I am proposing another innovation.

 The problem is that the list of ideas people come up to obfuscate their
email addresses is endless so I have no illusions we can ever decode all of
them in Mahogany short of building in an AI into it.

AGI> Increasingly I find myself copying and editing email
AGI> addresses that contain ' dot ' and ' at ' as spam
AGI> fighting strategies.  Could Mahogany recognize and
AGI> transform these (ignoring case)?

 According with the above I'm reluctant to build in any code doing it but I
think I have a better idea: what about adding a Python hook which would be
executed to normalize every email address entered into composer? E.g. to do
the above you'd simply have to define a function in Minit.py like this:

	def M_address_hook(addr):
		return addr.replace(' at ','@').replace(' dot ','.')

Of course, the advantage is that anybody can very easily change this hook
and do whatever [s]he needs.

 Would such feature be useful to you? If yes, please let me know and I'll
implement it.

 Thanks,
VZ



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