Subject: Re: patch: credit link typo in help files
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 18:26:58 CDT
>BTW, while fixing that, I noticed that all the mailto: links are
>formatted as <mailto:%20user@example.com>. That is, they have an
>embedded space encoded as "%20". What's up with that? Seems to still
>work, but why is it there in the first place? Does some browser need
>it to make proper sense of it?
Probably an antispam device. Spambots may not recognize %20 as an encoding for
a space and the spammer will send mail to %20user@example.com, which will
bounce.
phma
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