Hi, Personally, I don't get the use of microformats if the data is obscured. I mean, how far would you go to retain your privacy with hCard? There has to be a point where it becomes useless. So, I suppose that puts me in favour of case A.
Paul > 2008/7/7 Angus McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> Ameer Dawood wrote: >> > look what happened now. I jusst got the same kind of email. Looks like >> they are sending emails to email addresses found in hCards. *It's just >> like spam. I just dropped them a mail saying so. >> >> As a hardliner on this issue, my feeling is that any sentence that reads >> "that's {like/almost like/a kind of/close to/etc} spam" can be reduced to >> "that's spam" without loss of meaning or accuracy. >> >> The issue of spam and microformats is a dead horse that's already taken a >> fair amount of punishment, and I think the words "out of scope" were used >> last time the question came up. Still, I wanted to add a couple of >> comments. >> >> As far as consumers of microformats are concerned, I think that any system >> that generates automated mail to an address included in an hCard has >> crossed the line. Outside various rather improbable scenarios, there's no >> justification for doing this. >> >> As far as users of microformats are concerned, the choice is (a) include >> your address and expect to get spam, (b) leave your address out, or (c) >> obscure your address. I currently favor options (b) and (c). For (c), I >> actually recommend having a human-intelligible version (e.g. 'myaddress at >> example dot com') and then - if you like - having a run-on-document-ready >> Javascript function to convert it to a mailto: link for human consumption. >> >> Crawlers - both benign and malign - typically don't execute JS, so they >> won't see the actual email address. I don't think that's a bad thing for >> reasons indicated above. Tools that actually run in a browser context, >> such as Operator, should get the right result (Operator does). >> >> Angus >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> microformats-discuss mailing list >> microformats-discuss@microformats.org >> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss