X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7fa3a2f83b1f5e67c96072a1a2185c36b0867332..c18b85451625ff5b7ba8940c43f6703cc3b795d3:/doc/bugs/htmlscrubber_undoes_email_obfuscation_by_Text::Markdown.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/htmlscrubber_undoes_email_obfuscation_by_Text::Markdown.mdwn b/doc/bugs/htmlscrubber_undoes_email_obfuscation_by_Text::Markdown.mdwn index f193efc0c..99cc1964c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/htmlscrubber_undoes_email_obfuscation_by_Text::Markdown.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/htmlscrubber_undoes_email_obfuscation_by_Text::Markdown.mdwn @@ -33,5 +33,13 @@ The relevant commits are on the master branch of [my "fork" of ikiwiki on Github > `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 +> 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 +).