Re: T-Shirt yet again

Nik Taylor wrote, quoting myself:

> > Egroups scans the _whole_ message, and corrupts _every_ string that
> > looks like an email address (i.e. that has an '@' sign in the
> > middle).
>
> Uh-oh, does that mean that when you have a phonetic transcription like,
> say, /kat@strAfIk/, it would render it as /kat@ ?
Oh, I hadn't thought of that! No, it doesn't.

Maybe it recognises from the initial '/' that it is not an email address,
or maybe it knows that the RHS of an email address has at least one
full stop in it. (I won't waste other peoples' time experimenting to find
out!)

> Would it work if you put a space on either side of the at? Like
> fortytwo @ gdn.net - does this come out good for those posting thru
> e-groups?
Yes, that works.

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