Hi *,

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:23:18PM +0100, Christoph Lukasiak - Sun Germany - QA 
Engineer wrote:
> 
> by reworking the OOo QA sites i came to a disputable poit that rather 
> concern the OOo pages in general, so i would like to have 
> discussed/cleared it out here:
> 
> if i use maillinks like:
> <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sunject">Name</a>
> 
> spambots can take such adresses and spam the owner of this adress (do we 
> have such problems right now?) 

Hard to tell.. I don't suffer much from spam to my OOo-address, but OTOH
I don't have clickable mail-adresses, but only regular text ones.
And I did use entities to obfuscate the address, that seems to keep of
most of the spambots as well.
cl&#x6f;&#112;h&#x40;&#111;&#112;en&#x6f;f&#102;&#x69;ce.&#x6f;rg

My address with some entities.. Plaintext for the user, stuff that would
need to be decoded for the adress-harvester.

> on the other hand if you change the '@' 
> with a written 'at' less experienced user never reaches such persons, 
> because they miss to change that back by sending a mail (my sad 
> experience, so i would prefer writing it out)
> 
> on famous OOo sites like: http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html the 
> participant mail adresess are fully written out (with @)
> 
> => how it has to be handled in future time (i think there should be a 
> common solution)?

I don't have a preference really.... But if I was a spammer, I'd harvest
the adresses in the mailinglist archives istead of parsing regular
websites...

ciao
Christian
-- 
NP: Meshuggah - Catatonic Transfixion

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