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yread on Nov 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop obfuscating your email address - a geek mista...

I don't think it even makes sense to harvest these addresses. The people who write email [AT] address [dot] com are MUCH less likely to purchase their Viagra online in you shop just because you send them an email:)

pyre on Nov 1, 2009 [–]

Does that really matter? A botnet of '3 million users' sounds pretty impressive until you find out they're all on dial-up.

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