email addresses: @-sign needed
Brendan McKay
bdm at cs.anu.edu.au
Sat Apr 19 12:48:22 CEST 2003
* N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> [030419 20:34]:
>
> Afterr thinking about the problem some more,
> it seems to me that the simplest solution of all
> would be the best:
>
> just replace joe at broken.hill.com
>
> by
>
> joe _AT_ broken _dot_ hill _dot_ com
>
> for example
>
> As you once remarked, i think, that will defeat 99% of
> the email harvesters, and will be much easier to implement
I wonder if even that level of disguise is needed. Domain names
are not really sensitive in the great majority of cases, so
perhaps it will suffice to use
joe _AT_ broken.hill.com
or more graphically
joe(AT)broken.hill.com
Brendan.
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