----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "AbiWord Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: patch: credit link typo in help files
| >BTW, while fixing that, I noticed that all the mailto: links are
| >formatted as <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. That is, they have an
| >embedded space encoded as "%20". What's up with that? Seems to still
| >work, but why is it there in the first place? Does some browser need
| >it to make proper sense of it?
|
| Probably an antispam device. Spambots may not recognize %20 as
| an encoding for
| a space and the spammer will send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which will
| bounce.
Won't (standards complient) e-mail clients do the same thing?
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
