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Sometimes certain issues and/or questions are not appropriate or necessary for a thread. This is also better because Spacetime Studios can respond and take care of your issue and/or question.
Quick response to someones question on why people use 'at' or (at) or whatever else instead of @. Companies (usually marketing companies) send out obnoxious programs usually referred to as 'crawler bots' or 'soulless husks of rotten spam infused with the blood of its creators first born child' that go around the web looking for random email addresses and/or phone numbers. Once they find one they store it somewhere so the people who sent it out can start blowing it up with spam. Things they look for are the '@' symbol as well as '.com' or a series of numbers arranged as a phone number.
Just as a little hint, if youre going to go to the trouble or using (at) instead of @, make sure you also replace '.com' with dotcom or dot-com or something similar, as most
crawlers nowadays will pick up on a whatever(at)helplessspamvictim.com because of the .Com. Oh, and nearly all spam crawlers will ignore support@powertocrushspammers.com[/email] emails simply because of the support, or billing, or whatever. They can figure out that its a company not a person.
Thanks for attending Obnoxious spam bots 101, stay tuned for my next course, Go Phish - a nigerian princes guide to scams and spams, coming soon!
Last edited by gotrocks420; 03-31-2012 at 09:34 AM.
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I remember them doing it when the fan base was much smaller. I highly doubt they can still find the time to do this.
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