[microformats-discuss] hCard and spam

[Sam Deane]

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.