On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:22:50PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > But even if it does not break anything, why use entities instead of > ASCII?
Because programmers who code mail address harvesting spiders are (unsurprisingly) semi-morons who have never had a look at the HTML standard, so their code skips over an encoded "mailto:";. I've been doing the same thing on my homepage for a while, with good results (one single spam mail to that address so far). Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯
