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Re:Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn? by its_hertz on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:44AM (#32356844)
Well, I am one of them. Always wondered about that as well, I guess there is no modern community of “toltecs”.

Reach out to me if you want. i_ts_h(ertz) atgmail com

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Re:Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn? by torotonnato on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:12PM (#32358163)
I'm replying here to both OP and you, glad to have a chat if you want to reach out:

nt-f\u+n:tAo(r[imo{@g3m1ai2l{.Nc;o'm

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Re:Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn? by JadeNB on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:33PM (#32359256)
> (discard the odd index chars)

Turns out I'm dumber than a bot. I thought "they're all pretty odd", and wondered what an "index character" was, until I realised you meant numerically odd-index.

Re:Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn? by groffee on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:00PM (#32358818)
I get why you're both trying to obscure your email, but realistically it's pretty pointless. Literally everyone, their mom and the spammers can see it.
Re:Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn? by lscdlscd on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:08PM (#32358924)
It's to stop web scraping spam bots. It's not worth it for a web scraping scammer to take the time to individually decode his email address.
Re:Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn? by pvinis on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:06PM (#32358895)
add me on the discord or whatever you end up making for the people like us.

it's just my username and I use the google service.

Re:Ask HN: Where to find people who love to learn? by frozencell on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:58PM (#32362440)
Off-topic: I don't think those email tricks are spared by crawlers using language models.