[microformats-discuss] hCard and spam

[Ryan King]

On Jul 19, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Robert Bachmann wrote:

> I see a possible disadvantage of hCard usage.
>
> "mailto:" and "@" make it easy for spammers to collect email  
> addresses.
> I suposse a lot of email address collection programs uses either
> "mailto:" or "@" to recognize email addresses.
> But perhaps there is a work around:
> Instead of writing
>
>  <a class="email"
>  href="mailto:rbach at rbach.priv.at">rbach at rbach.priv.at</a>
>
> one could write:
>
>  <a class="e&#109;ail"
> href="&#109;ailto:rbach&#064;rbach.priv.at">rbach&#064;rbach.priv.at</ 
> a>

This is out of scope for hCard. You don't need hCard to do this, nor  
should it be required in hCard.

-ryan

> It's still valid XHTML but AFAIK most email address collection  
> programs
> do not resolve entities.
>
> This is just a tought.
>
> Robert