I’m always amazed at what people choose to email me about. I got many emails about the pronounciation of the email address. The emails said that the ‘AT’ and the ‘DOT’ are to prevent spam harvesters.

Fair enough. I had never seen anyone write their email address that way. I read sites that get WAY more traffic than Kotaku, and people still don’t write their emails like that. And generally with any email address, spam is a natural part of the Internet. Why bother writing the AND and DOT since anyone could just write the email in a normal way, on any comments section or message forum, and thus it would eliminate the ’spam-bot’ evasion you perform when saying AND and DOT?

But when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Therefore, I will participate with this way of expressing the email address but with an upgrade. I suppose I am to write my email address this way:

seanmalstrom AT yahoo DOT com

But a sneaky spam bot *might* be able to translate the AT and DOT and harvest my precious email address. Oh noes! What shall I do, reader? Therefore, let us re-invent the email address:

Es Ee Ae En Em Ae El Es Tee Ar Oe Em AT Why Ae A’ch Oe Oe DOT See Oe Em

I shall now use this new re-invented email address at the bottom of all my articles. To those who say, “That is tacky!”, I will say, “But behold how it evades the nefarious spam-bot!” And what can they say to that?