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How so?  There's nothing to back it up.  Further, there are scripts out 
there that are specifically designed to harvest email addresses with 
code that addresses the obfuscation.

> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Matthew Brown
> CorData, Inc. -- Linux solutions for business
> o: 770-795-0089
> 
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 
>> understanding is that email addresses are so easy to harvest right
>> now, that few harvesters bother trying to unobfuscate the email
>> addresses.  I suspect that even something as stupid as replacing all
>> '@'  symbols with ' AT ' in the archives would significantly reduce my
>> spam.  Doing funky stuff with hex codes might work even better.
>> Spammers know that using strange spellings and characters can fool
>> many filters.  Similarly, I bet the same tricks would fool many
>> spammers.
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