On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:50:57AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > While I worked on the translation of a document from the website, I wonder > if there is any explanation why some e-mailadresses are written > <kbd>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</kbd> and others are written <email > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Is one of these ways deprecated or is there a > deeper sense behind?
The former is deprecated. To spam crawler bots, it doesn't really matter if there's a mailto anchor, they'll slurp them all. To people, it's nicer when there's a mailto anchor because then they can just click on it. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.