From: Chisel Wright <chisel_at_herlpacker.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:41:15 +0000

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:27:43AM -0500, Brian Wolven wrote:
> Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
> >Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> >>It finds your email address in three places. Two of the three places
> >>are Rockbox archives where your _direct_ email address is obfuscated
> >>by the archives but SOME ONE ELSE did a reply to your email and the
> >>reply has your email address in plain text. The archiver did not
> >>detect and obfuscate the email address in the reply text.
> >
> >Where does it do that? I can't see it. The address seems to be perfectly
> >obfuscated in the HTML source code. Care to point it out for me?
>
> http://www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2006-06/0133.shtml

I would guess that (for performance reasons?) the message headers are
parsed and munged accordingly, but not the message content/body.
I can sort of see why - in the body it's quite easy to incorrectly flag
things at email addresses that aren't, although the "mailto:" should be
a big help/clue.

-- 
Chisel Wright
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w: http://www.herlpacker.co.uk/
  If you're looking for sympathy you'd have better luck
  looking between R and T in the dictionary.

Received on 2007-02-21