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Re:So someone "stole" your idea by beachstartup on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @11:50AM (#7024623)
obfuscating your email is useless. spam harvesters know all the common methods. just put your email in your profile if you don't want it showing up in threads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

also, security through obscurity is also a flawed concept to begin with. your obfuscation efforts do absolutely zilch compared to google's gmail team and their spam detection techniques.

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Re:So someone "stole" your idea by frogpelt on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @12:08PM (#7024756)
But, he didn't put .com. How can they possibly deal with that anomaly?

Seriously, I've wondered what people think they are accomplishing when they write a phone number like 2five5-3seven6-2one1four on a craigslist ad. Bots are going to find it just as easily and humans can read it.

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