Re: [Sqlgrey-users] Improved dynamic/one-shot email address regex

[Michael S. <Mic...@lr...>]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Jeff Rice wrote:

> Lionel Bouton wrote:
>  > Good, I believe this is useful. Note: the case insensitive match isn't
> > needed. All addresses are lowercased before being processed. I removed
> > it from all your substitution.
>
> Good to know.  The other VERP I am experimenting with deals with a
> number of emails I get that don't contain tell-tale signs (like -,_, or
> .) but are otherwise one-shot emails.  At the moment, I am assuming that
> if an email name contains more than 7 consecutive digits, the whole name
> should be masked.  I have never seen a normal email account with that
> many digits in a row.
>
> # mask long numeric sequences
> $user =~ s/.*[0-9]{7,}.*/#/g;
>
> This may be less-useful in the wild, but seems to function well enough
> for me.  The only drawback I can foresee is that this will probably mask
> emails that are sent by cellphones/pagers etc. since those are often use
> the phone number as the user name.

This matches definitely a lot of mobile phones which send SMS to
emailboxes, examples are in my from_table. I would not recommend to use
this regex.

>
> This and the other patch may very well need tweaking, so it would be
> useful if people could look at their from_awl tables and see how things
> are looking.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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