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Re: [PATCH] fix several errors in polish l10n

From: Michał Górny <sedzimir_at_mgorny.alt.pl>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:05:29 +0200

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:18:58 +0200, Julian Foad
<julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> wrote:

> I don't know if you noticed, but although the email address shows up on
> screen when you view that "contribulyzer" page, in the HTML source it is
> disguised. A spammer would need to run the page through an HTML renderer
> to extract the actual address. Probably some of them do that, so it's
> not great, but it's safer than it looks on screen.

I didn't notice that but IMO it's the weakest 'disguise' I've ever seen.
And even if the scanner itself wouldn't process entities, search engines
like Bing already decode them when crawling the site and the scanner can
get the e-mail address from the results, even without entering the page.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
http://mgorny.alt.pl/
<xmpp:mgorny_at_jabber.ru>
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