because it has to look like an email address
for
SPLATexample.com
While we're on the subject, it really does no good if a spammer wanted to harvest an email address from this site; they would simply have to modify their script so that it searches out SPLAT instead of @
However, I would imagine the bulk of spammers wouldn't worry about it, as they will get plenty of email addresses from sites that don't implement this kind of security.

Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:49 am