Re: ASCII codes from Fred Bone on 2003-07-02 (html-tidy@w3.org from July to September 2003)

From: Fred Bone <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:04:26 +0100
To: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <3F02CA4A.16676.254EFA0@localhost>

On 1 Jul 2003 at 14:03, Chris Harris (CW) wrote:

> I encode email address on my page with ASCII codes in the form &#123; This
> seems to be a valid way to avoid spambots listing the email addresses.
> 
> Tidy doesn't seem to like this encoding and insists on changing my encoding
> to chris@xxxxx.net etc.
> 
> Can somebody tell me how to change my Tidy config file to make it leave my
> encoded addresses alone?

I'm pretty sure you can't. You have to re-make such changes after 
Tidying.

FWIW: I favour disguising addresses with (for example) "-at-" instead 
of "@". Makes the person do a bit of work, but it's work that ensures 
that it really is a person and not a spambot.

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