Subject: Re: patch: credit link typo in help files
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 17:03:40 CST
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, WJCarpenter wrote:
>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?
It's an antispam device. Web browsers turn it into a space, but spambots (so
I've heard) don't, so the spammer sends spam to an address with a percent sign
in it, and it bounces.
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