[microformats-discuss] hCard and spam

[Josh Owens]

I agree with Sam... Kind of like DRM, not much point - spammers just write 
better tools.

On 7/21/05, Sam Deane <lists at elegantchaos.com> wrote:
> 
> On 20 Jul 2005, at 00:06, Robert Bachmann wrote:
> 
> > 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>
> 
> I think you're fighting a losing battle there. To be of value the
> information has to be machine readable, and if it's machine readable
> then the spammers will eventually write a spider to harvest it.
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