Why do some people not give their "proper" email addresses but write them like this ...

[penguinaballerina]

(for example):
freda bloggs at serviceprovider dot com
and not:
[email protected]?

[Piffle]

cos spammers get your address by scanning the web fir @ signs

[Swedes]

freda bloggs at service provider dot com would surely translate as [email protected] and not [email protected]
Sorry to be pedantic.

[Swedes]

serrvice service

[ChasingSquirrels]

am lol at Swedes pedantic typo on the pedants' thread.

[ChasingSquirrels]

bugger

[edam]

This could be a very brief thread. Given Piffle's answered the OP in one. (Can't think of any more diversions but am impressed by Swedes' pedantry.)

[ExterminAitch]

aw, you have just made the Freda Bloggs who works at Service Provider most unhappy...

[penguinaballerina]

Thanks everyone. I can rely on the Pedants to give me a straight answer!

[MrsSprat]

and also, some sites (e.g. Friends Reunited) block trad email addresses in notes so you cough up and pay their registration fee.

[Blandmum]

spambots