Bill Gradwohl wrote: > BTW - I ran thru the archives via a search for 'indirection' and for the > longest time was confused by references to addr...@hidden scattered > throughout the code examples. Here's an example: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-11/msg00085.html > > I did a man bash looking for addr...@hidden thinking its some new > facility I was unaware of. Made me feel pretty silly afterwards 8-) > > What is that supposed to be? The references presented by the search were > largely unusable because of it.
This is caused by misguided attempts to hide email addresses in order to avoid spammers being able to harvest them. Some people complain loudly if they see their email address on the web. I think that is silly since it is impossible to hide email addresses. A secret between you and several hundred (or thousand) other recipients on a public mailing list is not a secret. Hiding is not practically possible. But because of this issue hacks have made to web archive display code to avoid displaying email addresses. You are seeing one such broken attempt at appeasement. The web archive display code on lists.gnu.org munges what it thinks are email addresses in order to prevent harvesting by spammers. You might find this representation of that message more readable. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/1728/focus=1729 Bob
