Re: addresses in attributions
> Have you got a "%D" in your set attribution="On ... wrote:"?
> On some lists you can get flamed for including the email address in the
Flame away, if it helps. :) I've been around a long time, and I think
including the address provides more good than harm (if it makes sense
to attribute at all). I don't really think that hiding people's e-mail
addresses on web pages is that much use anymore, but in any case that's
a job for the people putting e-mail on the web, not for me. It's easy
for them to do HTML entity encoding, which is still 100% effective as
far as I can see, without even chopping off domain-parts or converting
to bitmaps or replacing @ with (at) or whatever the flavor of the week
is.
That said, usually I delete the attribution altogether if I don't think
it provides any value. I've come to believe that often it doesn't.
It's cluttery, and if it doesn't really matter who I'm responding to,
why include it? I just forgot on the last one.
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