On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:03:48AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 22 17:28, Lapo Luchini wrote: >> OK, I now imported the "rest of the page" and I am working at the >> following address: >> >> http://cyberx.lapo.it/~lapo/setup.html >> [...] >> BTW: right now all the emails are in clear and using fixed-font. >> I guess we sould either convert them to mailto: hrefs or "hide" the @ in >> some way. >> I mean: either we decide not to avoid spam in this way (I'm for this) >> and do the complete linking thing, or we actively avoid that: I doubt >> any spammer that parses mailto:s avoid parsing the text of the page >> itself for probable email addresses. > >I don't think it makes sense to put mailto:'s into the text. The new >maintainers will have a lot of contact with the apps and announce >mailing lists anyway later on. I can't believe they would try to use >the setup web page and click on the mail address to create their mails, >especially since they should be subscribed to apps anyway. >As for "hiding" the @, on a site I'm webmaster of, I'm simply using the >html &# equivalent on a site I'm webmaster for, and I got only two >spam mails within a year: > > webmaster@example.com > >Maybe we can use this here, too. But Chris is maintaining sourceware, >so I'd rather read his opinion here.
That's fine with me. I've done similar things, as well as using a gif image of the email address. cgf
