- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:22:49 +0900
- To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- CC: uri@w3.org
Mike Brown wrote: >>> 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? > are you referring to this example in the draft? Email address: "not@me"@example.org; corresponding mailto: URI: <mailto:%22not%40me%22@example.org>. Felix
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