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Re: email addresses in texinfo


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: email addresses in texinfo
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:15:47 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Karl Berry wrote:
> I personally don't feel so strongly about such anti-spamification stuff,

Me neither.  Hiding an email address seems doomed to failure.  You
can't hide something that other people need to know about to use.

> especially for mailing lists, but I don't see any particular harm in it,
> either.

I would like cut and paste to work but accept that life is a compromise.

>     <tt>&lt;bug-gnulib<span style="display:none">-nospam</span>&#64;
>     <span style="display:none">nospam.</span>gnu.org&gt;</tt>
> Thanks.  This seems pretty reasonable (and easy to implement) to me.

Just that?  Or also including the coupled javascript to enable cut and
paste to work?  Without the javascript it is not possible to cut and
paste the address directly.  Without the javascript the munged address
is pasted.

> <script type="text/javascript">
> <!--
> /* This hacks the DOM so that copy&paste in Firefox ignores the
> "nospam"
>    spans. */
> function clean_antispam() {
>   document.getElementById("span1").firstChild.nodeValue = "";
>   document.getElementById("span2").firstChild.nodeValue = "";
> }
> //-->
> </script>

Personally I think I would simply let people who want to try to hide
addresses to let them try to hide them (even though I believe it to be
an exercise in futility) and for those that don't then leave things
simple.

> > address@hidden<bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>}.
> > address@hidden@code{<bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>}}.

That is such a well known address I don't think it makes sense to
obfuscate it.  If someone wants to do that to their own personal
address I am okay with it though.

I realize it was already that way before this modification which is a
fix to prevent line breaks because of the already present obfuscation.
I just don't think it makes sense for well a known mailing list
address.

Bob




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