I've checked the source of my html and email addresses are being encoded, however Google is decoding them and posting them on the web. This is pretty much a bad thing, if google can decode them whats stoping other spam bots from doing the same?

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eabrand commented
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I put a question up on google's forum. I'll report back when I get a response.

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eabrand commented
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eabrand commented
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Try this: it might be getting the info from DMOZ. The best way to stop it from happening though is to use javascript instead of using the ascii characters.

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Crell commented
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Crell commented
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Looks like this is a more general problem:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/173229/Has-Google-Broken-JavaScrip...
http://baxil.livejournal.com/266909.html

Probably not much we can do about it on our end, then. :-(

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Crell commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Not an issue on our end, so nothing we can do.