On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:53:14PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:22:50PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > But even if it does not break anything, why use entities instead of > > ASCII? > > Because programmers who code mail address harvesting spiders are > (unsurprisingly) semi-morons who have never had a look at the HTML > standard, so their code skips over an encoded "mailto:";. Nice trick :) Denis