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Posted by John Dunlop on 10/12/06 11:09
jojo:
> That's because spambots are against the spirit of the internet, too.
Under discussion was not the spirit of the Internet but the spirit of
Internet specifications. What harvesters do does not run contrary to
the word or the spirit of the two specifications I mentioned. I would
maintain that what you proposed - replacing US-ASCII characters with
character references in HTML, and percent-encoding octets in URLs that
would otherwise be treated as data - does.
> If the "dark side" does not follow the rules we don't have to follow them
> either.
Come on. Internet specifications are a boon! If you fail to grasp the
advantages they bring - if you fail to imagine a WWW without them - why
wait until the "dark side" supposedly deviates from them before you
ignore them yourself?
Besides, in this war, there are more effective and less harmful
strategies than obfuscation.
--
Jock
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