On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:02:47PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Frankly, the non-incidental cost of breaking all mailto: links and all > > possibility of copying and pasting far outweighs the possible benifits > > of blocking non-intelligent e-mail harvesting programs. [Not to > > mention that address munging breaks bodies of messages and > > signatures.] > You don't need to break the mailto: links, you can simply replace by a > http:// link without the email and have a mechanism (captcha or whatever) > to get access to the real email... > > It's more complicated to implement and it's a bit heavy but we don't > copy-paste emails from public archives that often so that it's a major > nuisance for us. Frankly, I do copy-paste emails from public archives if I am looking at the page and I feel like I have extra info to provide or something to comment to some of the people involved. > We're getting off-topic for -newmaint though. Please take it to -project > if you reply to my mail. :) Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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