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Strange String Explained
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yanthestya at lycos dot com?
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What is THAT?
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For all you people that looked puzzled when see this kind of string in my homepage, here is the explanation:
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Those strings represent email addresses. someone at somewhere dot com should be read as someone@somewhere.com.
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Many spammers have a tool called email address harvester. These tools crawl the net, from one web page to another. While crawling, those tools parse the content of the pages that it crawled. When ever it stumbled upon strings that looked like an email address, it saved it into its database. Those spammers then use those database to make their spamming.
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Email addresses was written in a human readable form only to give those email address harvester a hard time. Well, at least for now. It just the matter of time before more sophisticated email harvester has been witten. At that time, I will have to find other ways to trick those email harvester.
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