On a related topic --- does anyone know how to pass an obfuscated email address through XSLT?
I've tried googling various solutions and am coming to the conclusion that it basically would require manually re-encoding to the output? Discovered that applying XSLT to a Markdown generated HTML doc with obfuscated email results in output HTML that has been "de-obfuscated." Fletcher On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Lou Quillio <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Wander Nauta <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree, entity-encoded mailto: links work quite well. They may not work >> forever, though, and some Drew McLellan made a good point here: >>> >>> In some ways, obfuscated addresses are even more valuable >>> to spammers, as the very act of obfuscation could suggest >>> that the address is important to someone. > > Certainly true, but the obfuscating user (or system) also signals that > he's spam-resistant: he filters aggressively, blocks ads, isn't > gullible, etc. Spam is a numbers game, I understand, but cracking my > obfuscation gets you access to a hardboiled skeptic who's already, > umm, large enough, thank you. Wouldn't want to scare the ladies. ;) > > Seriously, I think we're still in an age of leet stratification. A > comparatively small group signals that it's generally insusceptible to > spam, and then there's everybody else. If I were a spammer, I don't > know how hard I'd work to get access to the first group -- since my > emails probably still won't get through, and they won't click anyway. > Obfuscation is one of the ways we signal our low-value to spammers. > It could be they're glad to know it and go where the fishing is > better, which is everywhere else. And everywhere else is growing. > > None of this helps my mom, of course. But it helps me. > > LQ > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > -- Fletcher T. Penney [email protected] _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
