Subject: Re: patch: credit link typo in help files
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 14:46:18 CDT
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From: "Pierre Abbat" <phma@oltronics.net>
To: "AbiWord Mailing List" <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: patch: credit link typo in help files
| >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.
Won't (standards complient) e-mail clients do the same thing?
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer
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