[Catalog-sig] [updates] PEP 301 -- Package Index and Metadata for Distutils

[Oliver Rutherfurd]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Jones" <rjones@ekit-inc.com>
To: "Chris Liechti" <cliechti@gmx.net>; <catalog-sig@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Catalog-sig] [updates] PEP 301 -- Package Index and Metadata
for Distutils


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[Chris Liechti wrote]
> > and maybe there should be an option to hide the email address. i could
> > think that some people don't want their address on the web (to be
collected
> > by search engines and spammers)

[Richard Jones replied]
> Any suggestions? I could make it a per-package option. I could
alternatively
> mangle the address to make it less obvious to scrapers.

In HTML output generated by Docutils, the '@' in mailto: links is replaced
with '&#64;'.

Maybe that and displaying 'user at blah' would make it a little less
obvious.

-Ollie