Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by konschubert on Friday July 27, 2018 @02:27AM
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Hi,
Off topic question and hopefully not perceived as mean:
Why don't you type your email address with an @ ? Wouldn't you expect the higher conversion rate to outweigh the mostly theoretical increase in spam emails? Or is there another reason?
Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by TeMPOraL on Friday July 27, 2018 @02:47AM
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Higher conversion rate? This is a simple, age-old trick that eliminates most of the low-effort spambots (read: most of them, as there's enough money made there), while letting through any human that is smarter than an amoeba.
Off topic question and hopefully not perceived as mean:
Why don't you type your email address with an @ ? Wouldn't you expect the higher conversion rate to outweigh the mostly theoretical increase in spam emails? Or is there another reason?