@freemo

In response to:

"just a friendly reminder typing " at " instead of "@" when putting your email down does **absolutely nothing** to protect your email. bots will recognize it just as easily and scrape it. The only thing youve accomplished to add more steps and waste the time of legitimate people trying to email you."

Dear Dr. Freemo: I utilize "at" so I can preserve someone's Mastodon Instance Address because when I send a toot, after the toot is sent, the entire address is no longer visible in my reply toot, also I believe that I am paying respect to the Mastodon Instance Administrator and Moderators who maintain the operations of the server that I am sending the toot to. I never change original email address information, only add the original Mastodon Instance Email Address omitting "@," so I can remember just which account and corresponding server that I am communicating with.

So people may consider what I doing as being strange, but writing out the entire email address as a salutation saves me time and helps me to again find the person on the correct server without having to utilize search.

Plus Salutation to me is more respectful to the person that I am communicating with.

Example: Now I am able to remember who you are and what server you are on.

Dear Dr. Freemo at QOTO ORG:

Sincerely, Monica Andrews, Editor-in-chief, #FreePeoplesFreePress News