On: Stop obfuscating your email address - a geek mistake

[edw519]

OP has it all wrong.

  e d w 5 1 9   AT   g m a i l

is not meant to upset anybody.

It's a IQ test.

If you can't figure out how to contact me from that data then you'd probably be wasting my time anyway.

Self-solving problem.

[brent → edw519]

Exactly.

The author cannot be bothered to decode such email addresses. If that is the case I probably did not want his email in the first place. Ipso facto, my filter worked.

[Herring → brent]

I especially like where he says the writer is lazy for expecting him to spend 2 seconds decoding that address.

[clintavo → edw519]

You are EXACTLY right - we display our jobs email address this way. We figure if someone can't figure out an email address that is presented this way, then we don't want to hire them.