Trond Norbye <trond.norbye at gmail.com> writes: > Hi everyone. > > We are currently rewriting all email addresses we find in the source code by > converting @ to (a] for the version presented in the web page. I would like to > remove this, because the same page also got a link to the raw version of the > file (without a modification of the email address). > > This means that "spammers" that collects email addresses from web crawlers > will get the email addresses anyway. > > What does people think?
Sounds fine to me. I agree that the rewriting won't give much spam protection as long as the plain addresses are available from the "download" link. Currently, we interpret more or less every string with an @ sign in the middle to be an email address. This gives a lot of false positives, and may make us display code in a way that doesn't compile or run. Skipping the rewriting sounds like an easier and better option than trying to come up with a complex regexp that does not give false positives (I'm not even sure that's possible). -- Knut Anders
