I just got a note from a friend, they were sending me an alternate email address because the email I had for them wasn't presently functional. When I went to copy the text of the email address, it was highlighted as a link. It was a mailto: link. The mailto: link had the correct email address, unobfuscated.

So, now I'm curious. Does FA automatically unobfuscate email addresses? I don't usually obfuscate email addresses myself. Not just because my email is so old that it's well known by every spammer already, but I generally don't think it's a significant gain. It's not that hard to make deobfuscation routines that will cover most human readable obfuscated email addresses, anyways, I think.

But given this is something others believe in and care about, and it seems like a really 'Helpfully Unhelpful' feature to build and implement in the first place, I want to test here in this journal if FA will automatically unobfuscate a list of fake email addresses I'm about to list, and turn them into super easy to robocrawl mailto: links.

fakename[at]fakeserver.fake
fakename(at)fakeserver.fake
fakename at fakeserver.fake
fakename[at]fakeserver[.]fake
fakename(at)fakeserver(.)fake
fakename at fakeserver dot fake

Edit: I'm actually kind of happy to see it didn't work, but this journal's gonna be weird now. :P

If it turns out my friend actually made the mailto: link themself and set its visible text to an obfuscated version I am going to be so heccing flabbergasted. ^.^;;