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github fails to render rst email links properly
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test.rst

Here is text with an email link.

Here is an email in text (someone@somewhere.org).

What about second-line email links?

They all fail. The "@" in the email gets changed to "%40" because GitHub isn't differentiating properly between email addresses and URLs. This is strange, because GitHub is properly adding the "mailto:" component...

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