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8 responses to “This Is Why Spelling Out Your Email Address On Twitter Is Pointless”

1. 2012/11/05

   admin

   …and for the Brits:

   https://twitter.com/search?q=email%20at%20%22dot%20co%20dot%20uk%22

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2. 2012/11/05

   Lee

   Weirdly, I think some of the “at foo dot com” has been preserved, not only by people wanting to slightly obfuscate against spam-spiders, as a hedge against “helpful” systems that automatically obfuscate anything that matches an email regexp to… obfuscate against spam-spiders.

   (e.g. I’ve seen pages on the net that render as “drop me an email at username@[redacted]”.)

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   1. 2012/11/05

      admin

      True – I have seen that, too; but I think it’s rarer.

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3. 2012/11/05

   admin

   while (<>) {
       chomp;
       $input = $_;
       tr!A-Z[](){}<>!a-z        !;
       s!\@! at !go;
       s!\b! !go;
       s!\.! dot !go;
       @rwords = reverse(split(" "));
       if ("@rwords" =~
   	m!((com|uk)\s(dot\s[-\w]+\s)+at\s([-\w]+\sdot\s)*[-\w]+)!oi) {
   	print "email:\t";
   	foreach $word (reverse(split(" ", $1))) {
   	    if ($word eq 'dot') { print '.' }
   	    elsif ($word eq 'at') { print '@' }
   	    else { print $word; }
   	}
   	print "\n";
       }
   }
   

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4. 2012/11/05

   admin

   $ perl text-mail-parse.pl
   alec [dot] muffett{@}GMAIL dot Com
   email:	alec.muffett@gmail.com
   
   firstname DOT lastname {AT} sitename  co [dot] UK
   email:	firstname.lastname@sitename.co.uk
   

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   1. 2012/11/05

      admin

      no it’s not perfect, yes it could be improved, but i’ll bet it matches 80% of the twitter search content correctly…

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      1. 2012/11/05

         alecm

         @fanf – aka: dot at dotat dot at – is excused. 🙂

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5. 2012/11/05

   Henk

   first dog last cat domain dog com

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