REMOVE in email address

[airfoil]

Ok, can someone tell me whats with the REMOVE that I see in a lot of email addresses?

 

[fs5]

uh.. to prevent spam duh.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
uh.. to prevent spam duh.

In a perfect world programmers who write email harvesters would be too dumb to include a function to automatically strip the word "remove" from the email address.

This isn't a perfect world.

 

[Yomicron]

There are web crawlers that go around looking for e-mail addresses to send spam to. By having REMOVE in there, the web crawler will collect a fake address. You'll need to remove REMOVE inorder to send an e-mail.

EDIT: as aves2k said, it is easily circumvented

 

[Maximus96]

some people have a difficult time grasping the simplest things

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: zaku
some people have a difficult time grasping the simplest things

 

[airfoil]

And I thought AT needed a valid email address?

Edit: Forgot to add the Duh...

Duh!

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: zaku
some people have a difficult time grasping the simplest things

:thumbsup: its a feature :thumbsup:

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: airfoil
And I thought AT needed a valid email address?

It does.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: airfoil
And I thought AT needed a valid email address?

the AT server automatically adds it.

okay you can stop now, you've hit your 2 stupid questions quota of the day.

 

[airfoil]

Make me

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: zaku
some people have a difficult time grasping the simplest things

C'mon consider the elementary school members.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: zaku
some people have a difficult time grasping the simplest things

C'mon consider the elementary school members.

I can only deduce that airfoil is one by the reply above your post.