From the source of [[usage]]: joey@ikiwiki.info Text::Markdown obfuscates email addresses in the href= attribute and in the text. Apparently this can't be configured. HTML::Scrubber doesn't set `attr_encoded` for its HTML::Parser, so the href= attribtute is decoded. Currently it seems it doesn't set `attr_encoded` for good reason: so attributes can be sanitized easily, e.g. as in htmlscrubber with `$safe_url_regexp`. This apparently can't be configured either. So I can't see an obvious solution to this. Perhaps improvements to Text::Markdown or HTML::Scrubber can allow a fix. One question is: how useful is email obfuscation? Don't spammers use HTML parsers? > I now see this was noted in the formatting [[/ikiwiki/formatting/discussion]], and won't/can't be fixed. > So I guess this is [[done]]. --Gabriel I've [[patch]]ed mdwn.pm to prevent Text::Markdown from obfuscating the emails. The relevant commits are on the master branch of [my "fork" of ikiwiki on Github] [github]: - 7d0970adbcf0b63e7e5532c239156f6967d10158 - 52c241e723ced4d7c6a702dd08cda37feee75531 --Gabriel. [github]: http://github.com/gmcmanus/ikiwiki/ > Thanks for coming up with a patch, but overriding > `Text::Markdown::_EncodeEmailAddress` gets into its internals more than > I'm comfortable with. > > 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 ).