Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion [2023-02-21 07:24]: > One thought is whether our old tradition of using " at " (4 > characters) instead of "@" is as protective of email addresses as it > once was? It goes back at least before 2001 to when the primary > defense against spam was having an email that was 'unlisted' and not > discoverable by simple bots - is that even true anymore? A middle > ground might be an alternative single-character symbol like %. I defer > to those far more knowledgeable about email than I am on whether that > protection is still useful...
I think about it constantly. Aesthetically, I'd wish for the use of real URIs. But I'd rather have the communitie's input. Here are a couple of references: https://security.stackexchange.com/q/45041 https://web.archive.org/web/20130625145339/http://techblog.tilllate.com/2008/07/20/ten-methods-to-obfuscate-e-mail-addresses-compared/ (Sorry for the long URL) -- juan Registrar
