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@@ -28,3 +28,18 @@ The relevant commits are on the master branch of [my "fork" of ikiwiki on Github
 --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
+).