request for removal of mailto:

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.10.04 10:14:55 +0900, Motoyuki Konno wrote:

> There are many people who can not endure receiving many spams
> (ex. dialup ppp, slow connection, ...).  If we do nothing on
> this problem,  some people may think that "If I submit PR,
> I will receive many many spam.  So I will not submit PR."
> It's not good.

No, that should be avoided, if possible.

> I propose to do followings:
> 
>     o  delete "mailto:" tag
>     o  use "username at foo.org" instead of "username at foo.org"
> 
> Any comments?

I don't know how much it will really help, but as long as the addresses
aren't made more obscure than the example you show above (where they are
still easy to read for humans), it's fine with me.

The new mailman archives uses an obscuration like the one you propose,
but the old mailing list interface doesn't, though it doesn't have a
mailto link either.

So the old mailing list archives, cvsweb, and GNATS web interface needs
to be looked at if someone whishes to make these changes...

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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