On May 17, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On May 17, 2007, at 06:00, Ian Eiloart wrote:
On 16 May 2007 17:12:10 -0700 James Berry wrote:
Following discussion with several of you, and more thought, my
thinking
is now:
(1) Obfuscate plain text email addresses by using the form:
- tld/domain/username
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==> com/bar/user
- if there are multiple components in the hostname, only the
dot before
the tld is turned into a slash:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==> com/foo.bar/user
This won't always work (at least, not with simple
implementations), since a slash is legal in an email local part
(though often banned by local policy). However, if you used
"subdomain.tld/localpart" you'd be OK, since the first slash would
always be the separator.
I'm also concerned that this looks silly/weird for people whose
email addresses are at CCTLDs where the last two components of the
email address usually "go together". For example, if your email
address is at "mail.example.edu", then it's somewhat ok to encode
this as "edu/mail.example", since "mail.example" is the part that
the school has control over while "edu" is the part they don't
control. However, in the case of Ian, encoding "sussex.ac.uk" as
"uk/sussex.ac" makes less sense/looks more strange, since "ac.uk"
goes together (is the UK equivalent of "edu").
Good point.
So I would be in favor of changing [EMAIL PROTECTED] into
mail.example.com/user.name. Or com.example.mail%user.name. Or
something. But in any case making it clear (to both people and
machines) which part is the local part and which part is the domain
part (which as Ian said is not possible when you use multiple
encoding characters to split the domain part into multiple parts).
As Ian pointed out, / isn't really good as it's a valid atext
character from rfc 2822. So what if we head back to Salvatore's
suggestion of:
suxxex.ac.uk:iane
That's more readable, and unlikely to be recognized by the spambots.
James
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