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I'm replying here to both OP and you, glad to have a chat if you want to reach out:

nt-f\u+n:tAo(r[imo{@g3m1ai2l{.Nc;o'm

(discard the odd index chars)

> (discard the odd index chars)

Turns out I'm dumber than a bot. I thought "they're all pretty odd", and wondered what an "index character" was, until I realised you meant numerically odd-index.

I get why you're both trying to obscure your email, but realistically it's pretty pointless. Literally everyone, their mom and the spammers can see it.

It's to stop web scraping spam bots. It's not worth it for a web scraping scammer to take the time to individually decode his email address.

add me on the discord or whatever you end up making for the people like us.

it's just my username and I use the google service.

Off-topic: I don't think those email tricks are spared by crawlers using language models.