[ILUG] hey hun
Waider
waider at dspsrv.com
Tue Jan 15 17:18:09 GMT 2002
According to Aherne Peter-pahern02:
> I would have though a system like replacing the '@' with 'at' so
> addresses looked like 'peter at linux dot ie' or something like that
> would allow people to post directly to a user with just a little
> amount of effort and stop automatic harvesting of our address.
s/ at /@/;
s/ dot /./g;
And there we go.
Simple machine translations like that are pretty trivial to undo. And the
more complicated you make the translation, the harder it is for a human to
get it right. Besides, most people ignore all that and just click on Reply.
Waider. Or press 'r' or whatever.
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