Re: Replacing @ with

On Saturday 06 December 2003 05:06, Andreas Grabmller wrote:
> ----- Original-Nachricht -----
> Von: "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
> An: Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@gunduz.org>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
> CC: PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
> Datum: Friday, December 05, 2003 01:37 PM
> Betreff: [pgsql-www] Replacing @ with " at "
>
> > I have an issue with the way this was done.  The email addresses were
> > left as links, but the links aren't valid (pops up in your email as foo
> > at bar.com. Theres a couple solutions to this:
> >
> > 1) Don't make the email address a link
> > 2) make the mailto be a valid link, but the words on the page not
> > 3) add a checkbox to the submit page to "obfuscate email", so that
> > s/@/at, and not a link, or we'll leave in @ and make it a link.
>
> Is there any reason why we must show the email address? Of course, we need
> that adresses in our database to manage the news, but do we have to show it
> to the visitors? Why not simply let the submitters input their name and
> then show this?
>

as long as we allow news items for all kinds of sub/side projects related to
postgresql, i think we ought to have some kind of distinction that these
items are not coming from the core project itself.

Robert Treat
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