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Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

OP has it all wrong.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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