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--- config:mailguard [2009-05-19 01:22] – 84.29.201.90
+++ config:mailguard [2019-08-18 22:52] (current) – update hex behavior phy25
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 ====== Configuration Setting: mailguard ======
-This configures if and how email addresses will be obfuscated against harvesting bots. Possible options are:
+This configures if and how email addresses will be obfuscated against harvesting bots.
+Currently there are bots that are powerful enough to encode all these, so if it really counts and you don't mind that human cannot copy-paste email addresses, you may want to generate images manually to show email address instead.
+Possible options are:
   * ''visible'' -- replaces ''@'' with ''[at]'', ''.'' with ''[dot]'' and ''-'' with ''[dash]''
-  * ''hex'' -- uses hex entities to encode the address
+  * ''hex'' -- uses UTF-8 code entities to encode the address; code will be represented in decimal form (e.g. ''&#106;''), which is actually not "hex"
   * ''none'' -- no obfuscating is used