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Can anyone shed light on why the author writes the '@' sign on his email as "at-thing" and not "at"?
by elSidCampeador 6y ago
Can anyone shed light on why the author writes the '@' sign on his email as "at-thing" and not "at"?
- kazinator 6y agoMaybe e-mail harvesting bots have figured out how to reverse a foo (at) bar (dot) com address, but are thoroughly defeated by (at-thing). For now.
- missosoup 6y agoSOTA neural networks can summarise entire articles or books down to a few paragraphs accurately. Thinking that replacing @ with 'at' or anything else in an email address that a human can infer to be an email address, and assuming that a modern bot can't make the same inference, that's just silly in 2020.
- kranner 6y agoGP's comment was about the probable capability of currently performed bots, not the SOTA performance of bots that may be deployed in theory.
- kazinator 6y agoHarvest bots are almost certainly along the lines of Perl and Python scripts armed with regexes.
- ignoramous 6y agoAll they want is to thwart a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie