1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
index 77acecda..2379b918 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use warnings;
 use Encode qw(find_encoding);
 use PublicInbox::MID qw/mid_clean mid_escape/;
 use base qw/Exporter/;
-our @EXPORT_OK = qw/ascii_html/;
+our @EXPORT_OK = qw/ascii_html obfuscate_addrs/;
 
 # for user-generated content (UGC) which may have excessively long lines
 # and screw up rendering on some browsers.  This is the only CSS style
@@ -86,4 +86,11 @@ sub prurl {
         index($u, '//') == 0 ? "$env->{'psgi.url_scheme'}:$u" : $u;
 }
 
+# for misguided people who believe in this stuff, give them a
+# substitution for '.'
+# ․ · and ͺ were also candidates:
+#   https://public-inbox.org/meta/20170615015250.GA6484@starla/
+# However, • was chosen to make copy+paste errors more obvious
+sub obfuscate_addrs ($) { $_[0] =~ s/(\S+@[^\.]+)\./$1•/g }
+
 1;