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@@ -15,3 +15,31 @@ Perhaps improvements to Text::Markdown or HTML::Scrubber can allow a fix.
 
 One question is: how useful is email obfuscation?
 Don't spammers use HTML parsers?
 
 One question is: how useful is email obfuscation?
 Don't spammers use HTML parsers?

+
+> I now see this was noted in the formatting [[/ikiwiki/formatting/discussion]], and won't/can't be fixed.
+> So I guess this is [[done]]. --Gabriel
+
+I've [[patch]]ed mdwn.pm to prevent Text::Markdown from obfuscating the emails.
+The relevant commits are on the master branch of [my "fork" of ikiwiki on Github] [github]:
+
+- 7d0970adbcf0b63e7e5532c239156f6967d10158
+- 52c241e723ced4d7c6a702dd08cda37feee75531
+
+--Gabriel.
+
+[github]: http://github.com/gmcmanus/ikiwiki/
+
+> Thanks for coming up with a patch, but overriding
+> `Text::Markdown::_EncodeEmailAddress` gets into its internals more than
+> I'm comfortable with.
+> 
+> It would probably be best to add an option to [[!cpan Text::Markdown]] to
+> let the email address munging be disabled. --[[Joey]]
+
+
+Email obfuscation is very useful --
+in practice, spammers apparently don't use HTML parsers --
+according to the only published study I have read
+( a 2003 study by the Center for Democracy and Technology cited by
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_munging
+).