• Signature Question

    From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Barry Martin on Wednesday, January 04, 2023 18:15:00

    Hi Folks!

    The following is my signature here on ILink:

    > BarryMartin3@ <
    > @MyMetronet.NET <

    It's purpose is so if someone needs to contact me via alternate channel
    they can. I have two 'at' signs to try to fool the nasty email-grabber
    bots. (Everyone spells out 'at' so they're probably laughing their
    diodes off at that lame attempt.) The address in two lines is also an
    attempt to confuse the bots, using a non-traditional format.

    There are two "net's" (which confuses the humans more than the bots).
    The arrow thingies are just to make it look pretty.

    Can anyone suggest a better option? ...I don't recall ever being
    contacted because someone wanted to avoid saying it publicly in ILink.

    Thanks!



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  • From Ky Moffet@454:1/1 to Barry Martin on Thursday, January 05, 2023 20:04:00
    BARRY MARTIN wrote:
    Hi Folks!

    The following is my signature here on ILink:

    -> BarryMartin3@ -<
    -> @MyMetronet.NET -<

    Can anyone suggest a better option? ...I don't recall ever being
    contacted because someone wanted to avoid saying it publicly in ILink.

    I think it's fairly obvious when one copypastas that it needs doctoring
    to work. Hadn't even noticed the second @. I don't get arrows, I get the
    R in a circle (registered trademark symbol).

    So I don't see a problem. Should suffice if needed.
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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Ky Moffet on Friday, January 06, 2023 07:07:00

    Hi Ky!

    The following is my signature here on ILink:

    -> BarryMartin3@ -<
    -> @MyMetronet.NET -<

    Can anyone suggest a better option? ...I don't recall ever being
    contacted because someone wanted to avoid saying it publicly in ILink.

    I think it's fairly obvious when one copypastas that it needs
    doctoring to work. Hadn't even noticed the second @. I don't get
    arrows, I get the R in a circle (registered trademark symbol).

    The second '@' is probably like the old

    Paris in the
    the spring

    trick: the second 'the' is usually ignored.


    As for the high-ASCII characters, probably depends on the default
    character coding. Here I send it out to look like a small, single-
    character width '>>' on the left and '<<' on the right. Youre message returned 'T>>' and 'T<<', the 'T' being one character wide and the
    arrors also a character wide. The 'T'is fine (as in thin) -- probably
    more like the line drawing character.


    So I don't see a problem. Should suffice if needed.

    So far I'll just leave it as is. ...Sort of reminds me of a captcha I
    dealt with a few years ago. Question was "Create a nonsense word using
    the third letter of bedazzle and the letter that's next to itself.",
    OK, so 1-2-3: that's 'd;. Now what letter is 'beside itself'?? A-b-c
    ... 'w'??. Try 'dw' - nope. Try 'du' - nope. Ends up was wanting 'z'!




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