A link like [this](mailto:foo@bar.org) will not be converted correctly to a mailto link in the rss/atom feeds, but an absolute link instead. See e.g. the logitech post on http://madduck.net/blog/feeds/planet-lca2008/index.rss

fixed --Joey

This still happens for auto-generated mailto: links that are garbled by Markdown, so that

<matthias@rampke.de>

is turned into

<a href="m&#97;&#105;&#x6C;t&#111;:&#109;&#x61;&#116;&#x74;&#x68;&#105;a&#x73;&#64;&#x72;&#x61;&#109;&#x70;&#x6B;&#101;&#46;&#100;&#x65;">&#109;&#x61;&#116;&#x74;&#x68;&#105;a&#x73;&#64;&#x72;&#x61;&#109;&#x70;&#x6B;&#101;&#46;&#100;&#x65;</a>

for HTML, but

&lt;a href=&quot;http://rampke.de/m&amp;#97;&amp;#105;&amp;#x6C;t&amp;#111;:&amp;#109;&amp;#x61;&amp;#116;&amp;#x74;&amp;#x68;&amp;#105;a&amp;#x73;&amp;#64;&amp;#x72;&amp;#x61;&amp;#109;&amp;#x70;&amp;#x6B;&amp;#101;&amp;#46;&amp;#100;&amp;#x65;&quot;&gt;&amp;#109;&amp;#x61;&amp;#116;&amp;#x74;&amp;#x68;&amp;#105;a&amp;#x73;&amp;#64;&amp;#x72;&amp;#x61;&amp;#109;&amp;#x70;&amp;#x6B;&amp;#101;&amp;#46;&amp;#100;&amp;#x65;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

for Atom and RSS.

This garbling is provably pointless. Proof: For $1000 I will take off my white hat, put on my black hat, and implement support for it in any spammer's email address extraction tool. Money will be donated to a spam-fighting organisation of my choice.

So, in leu of money, it seems best to find a way to disable it in markdown.

Anyway, I've fixed this, at the expense of additional total worldwide power usage, etc. --Joey