Re: bkbits - "@" question

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:14:52PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > * Larry McVoy asked:
> > The web pages on bkbits.net contain email addresses.  This is
> > probably about a 4 year too late question but would it help reduce
> > spam if we did something like  s/@/ (at) / for all those addresses?
> >
> > * Christoph Hellwig answered:
> > No.
> 
> Why not, please?

Because spambots parse all this replacements anyway, and it makes cut & pasting
mail addresses if you want to reply to a change much easier.

p.s. please reply to me if you reply to my mails, thanks

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