On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 20:15:35 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis wrote:
I don't believe changing the content of a message is The Right Thing to do.
The content of the message is also changed when you turn an email address into a hyperlink. Why do it when the original message didn't have a hyperlink? Someone who explicitly wants the email address to be clickable could send the mail in HTML (along with all the associated "evils" of HTML mails).
There sure will be problems like people will have to do a copy-paste where only a click could do and they'll have to replace all [at]s and [dot]s with @ and .. Also, in the archives some things might be confusing, like "... how changing foo[at]bar[dot]com to foo[at]bar[dot]com ..." (see above).
My point is that this issue be resolved considering practical issues rather than on the basis of "Right Thing" ideologies.