I do not believe this is a case of laziness. Spammers and scripts posed to run searches on pages will return results of href'd links, whereas plain text is generally ignored. If it was a link to his own site or my own site, I would strongly consider not having a fully working link to avoid scripts and bots from following that link and running searches for e-mail addresses theirs. That combined with the fact that he's posting to a forum whose intelligence should be enough to understand a plain text "link" pretty well negates the need for this entire discussion. A priori, as my AI bot might call it. But then, it would appear that all three of us were wrong on this one.
In which case I should say that in the case of laziness, perhaps you are too lazy to think of the why and would rather gripe about that which you still haven't considered instead of copy/pasting a text link. How lazy is that?
Peace,
m_c
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I do not believe this is a case of laziness. Spammers and scripts posed to run searches on pages will return results of href'd links, whereas plain text is generally ignored. If it was a link to his own site or my own site, I would strongly consider not having a fully working link to avoid scripts and bots from following that link and running searches for e-mail addresses theirs. That combined with the fact that he's posting to a forum whose intelligence should be enough to understand a plain text "link" pretty well negates the need for this entire discussion. A priori, as my AI bot might call it. But then, it would appear that all three of us were wrong on this one. In which case I should say that in the case of laziness, perhaps you are too lazy to think of the why and would rather gripe about that which you still haven't considered instead of copy/pasting a text link. How lazy is that? Peace, m_c