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Re: obfuscating email addresses

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From: _mallory
Date: Feb 20, 2015 3:21AM

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:23:55PM -0600, Jeremy Merritt wrote:
> <li>robert&#64;domain&#46;com</li>

The entity version should always be exactly as accessible as no-entities.
Browsers do the work of turning these into characters, long before any
AT gets ahold of them.
Then again, if a browser can do it, a bot can too. Just seems most don't
bother.

_mallory