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One of my users has complained about the fact that his email, that is shown not quite correctly because of spam security reasons in my blog itself (fi. mail[at]domain.com) is shown as a real mail adress (f.i. mail@romulus23.de) in my comment feed. I must say that I go confirm with this user on this issue and have a slightly bad feeling about it. Is there a reason to protect a mail address on a website but not on a feed?

Does no one have an opinion about this?

Well, it's because the RSS feed should be inside of the API specification; and it says only valid emails are allowed. The problem is, you can't defeat spam easily, because also our '[at]' kind of mangling is already easily parsable by harvesters. So I supopse it's an "eat or die" solution for specifying email adresses on the web; even though we could agree about not giving out email adresses in the feed. Or offer an option for this setting...

Regards,
Garvin

I would appreciate an option to not display email adresses at all on the outside, so that only registered users with access to the admin areas can see the email addresses.