- From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:59:40 -0700 (MST)
- To: uri@w3.org
> >A URL for this Internet-Draft is: > >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-mailto-bis-04.txt I thought I mentioned this before, but don't remember what the outcome was. AFAIK, browsers pretty universally treat %40 as equivalent to "@" in mailto URIs. Ofuscating email addresses in this way is even recommended as an antispam practice to fool automated address harvesters: http://www.neilgunton.com/doc/spambot_trap (where I first read of it) http://www.csarven.ca/hiding-email-addresses http://www.rl-digital.com/2006/hide-email-address/ and so on... Google turns up quite a few. Should the mailto I-D acknowledge this widespread equivalence in implementations, even if it's not in keeping with the principle that "@" has a reserved purpose and "%40" means something different? Mike
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