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Khan (Suspended)
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Well, info(AT)justteensite.com is a format to let you know what the email address is BUT keep spam bots from picking up the email address (as they will when you post it like you did here).
Most know to replace the (AT) with @
It really isn't prudent to post raw email addresses on public web pages as they will (almost certainly) be picked up by spam bots.
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11-29-08 07:02am
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lk2fireone (0)
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REPLY TO #1 - Khan :
Delete the comment if you want. Doesn't much matter to me.
This was the first time I came across the (AT) substitution for @.
I don't usually send many email messages to adult sites I join. The PU site is an exception, if my posts are considered emails.
Maybe I should join a computer club to pick up details on using a PC. I learned to use a PC by reading some books and trial and error.
Is this message considered email?
I personally get a small number of spam emails (6-10+) each day, but consider that part of the price of the email service.
So it was a mistake to post the email address for support at justteensite?
I've never posted publicly the email address of any person, as far as I know.
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11-29-08 08:56am
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Drooler (Disabled)
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While I agree with Khan about not posting "live" email addresses, I would think that the people who write spam bots could probably write code that would identify soAndso(at)place.dom as an email address, too.
There's a javascript I found once that might do better to thwart the bots. It basically just puts the pieces of the email address into variables and then writes the actual address to the page. Since bots scan the code, they wouldn't recognize it as an email address, but it works the same for a person viewing the page.
But who knows if the bot writers haven't figured that out, too.
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11-29-08 08:58am
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lk2fireone (0)
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REPLY TO #3 - Drooler :
I've read articles about PC security, most of the technical details I did not understand. But I've read that just visiting some infected sites (without downloading anything) can infect your PC. Also, if you buy a brand new hard drive from a major disk drive maker (Western Digital, Seagate, whoever), the hard drive (or maybe it was the software that comes with the hard drive) can be infected before you even open the box to install it on your PC.
I try to keep all sensitive financial data off my PC.
I also run firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware, but there are geniuses out there who can get past any simple safety measures I am running.
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11-29-08 09:20am
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Khan (Suspended)
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REPLY TO #2 - lk2fireone :
Because (I'm guessing) it was an email address you got off the site, I left it unedited this time. Some times I will edit an actual address.
Sometimes you may also see them use the format "support [at] pornusers [dot] com" as we often do here at PU.
Like Drooler remarks, I suspect some spam bots have evolved to pick up the alternate ways of listing an address. And myself, I also use a script much like the one he describes to cloak an email address when I code it onto a web page. Still, it's generally considered bad form to post a raw address on a public post ... especially if it's someone else's address.
And no, your post here (nor in the PU Forum) are not considered email. However, spam bots scan web pages to harvest any email address they can find.
Anyway, now you'll know when you see that format for an email address that you need to change it to the correct syntax for your email program to use.
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11-29-08 10:58am
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