Re: use of HTML in AddressModifyCode

[Jym Dyer <jym@econet.org>]

>> Look at the HTML: the text is non-linear; this is not
>> something that a simple pattern matcher is going to find.
> True.
> ...
> It still screws up any mailto: linking of addresses and spaces
> are rendered around the "@" on some browsers (at least the
> text-based ones like w3m, links, and lynx).

=v= I do something along these lines:

jym<!--
spamtrap@example.com -->&copy;<!--
NOSPAM -->econet.org

Breaking lines up with comments doesn't seem to bother *any*
browser, so long as I keep it tight and don't introduce
whitespace.  It's not difficult for a parser to strip all
comments, but I've managed to get the spamtrap address culled
and used by spammers, so I've managed to mess with some of them.

=v= My approach hinges on replacing @ with &copy; (&reg; is also
a possibility), and I suppose it could be taken a step further
by replacing . with &middot; -- you end up with something a
human can figure out and parsers don't seem to have (yet).

=v= I've pretty much given up on mailto: URLs.  If anything, I
just use things like "mailto:REPLACE THIS WITH MY EMAIL ADDRESS".
    <_Jym_>