Hi Jeff, *, Jeff Breidenbach schrieb:
> There are two cases that are very common and handled poorly. One > is an http hyperlink to mail-archive.com as we've been discussing. > The other is a a mailto hyperlink. These are correctly obfuscated, > but end up as a broken link. Better to not have a link than a broken > one. Agreed. > http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg-de...@lists.x.org/msg01612.html > I'm wary of preserving things that look like email addresses in other > ftp | rsync | http URLs. Mainly because these might be actual email > addresses. > Aside from address harvesting spambot issues, they can generate very > vocal complaints by folks searching for their email address in global > search engines. What case do You expect a private mailadress getting part of one of the URLs pointed out? I don't have any idea where and how this can happen. > I'm happy to patch mhonarc, and impressed by all the energy on this > thread. For me working links are a killer feature to use mail-archive.com as reference in any kind of mail I write. It's less work to go to the mailinglist's generic archive than to rework complaints for broken links. Gruß/regards -- Friedrich Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/ LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images (german version already started) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org.
