Yes - imagine the burden on open relay mailers when they try to blast spam to ill formed email addresses they harvested!
Hey wait - maybe this is a *good* idea! Barry www.i18n.com At 02:12 PM 10/25/2002 +0100, Michael Everson wrote: >At 05:31 -0700 2002-10-25, Ramiro Espinoza wrote: >>In some latin countries the people involved in gender studies are using the >character "@" to mean "a/o". >> >>Example: "Tod@s nosotr@s" (instead of "todos nosotros" -"All of us"-). >> >>They try to give a male and female approach to the spanish generic words. > >That's pretty horrible. Why don't they just use the letter schwa? :-) >-- >Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com