[uf-discuss] Spam and Microformats Search

[Drew McLellan]

On 19 Jun 2006, at 16:58, Chris Messina wrote:

> That said, there is a remedy: change your hCard to *not* include your
> email, or gussy it up, like joe at my domain dot com, and then use
> Pingerati to tell them that you've updated the record. AFAIK, if
> they've indexed MF data on a page that is subsequently deleted, you
> can ping them to have it removed from their index (which of course is
> one way that they maintain a clean index).

This is something I've considered before, but have shied away from  
and opted not to include an email address at all.

Is 'joe at my domain dot com' a valid entry for email in an hCard?  
I'd say not...


drew.