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authorDavidCary <DavidCary@web>2017-07-05 13:51:19 -0400
committeradmin <admin@branchable.com>2017-07-05 13:51:19 -0400
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answer question, with reference.
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@@ -35,3 +35,11 @@ The relevant commits are on the master branch of [my "fork" of ikiwiki on Github
>
> It would probably be best to add an option to [[!cpan Text::Markdown]] to
> let the email address munging be disabled. --[[Joey]]
+
+
+Email obfuscation is very useful --
+in practice, spammers apparently don't use HTML parsers --
+according to the only published study I have read
+( a 2003 study by the Center for Democracy and Technology cited by
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_munging
+).