Great seat for sale Twins 4/22-23

by skigurl on Apr 9, 2008 9:52 AM PDT Comment 8 comments

I am once again offering my single seat in section 117, row 7, for a number of games throughout the season. This is one seat, dead-center behind home plate, in the vicinity of scouts and other assorted dignitaries (not to mention some very cool ANers). I will be selling my ticket whenever I can't make it to a game. Right now, I have a ticket available for both the 4/22 and 4/23 games against the Twins. I'm asking $50 per ticket, which is the box office price. ("Premium" games, if available, will go for $55.) For an additional $10 I will include the VIP parking pass. If you're interested in these games or any others, please email me at skigurl at sonic dot net.

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Not interested in the tickets, but I do have a question maybe someone

can answer. Why do people spell out their email address. I see this frequently on blogs but what would be the harm of listing it as skigurl@sonic.com or whatever?

I'm not trying to be a jerk, just curious.

by 33SwisherSweet on Apr 9, 2008 10:34 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's to avoid harvesting by spam bots ...

she's likely going to be getting some unwanted e-mail now ....

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Apr 10, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

NM on the unwanted e-mail ... kudos on .com

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Apr 10, 2008 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's an attempt to avoid crawlers

Spammers have programs that crawl the web looking for email addresses. By putting an email address in a standard format, you're pretty much guaranteeing yourself more spam, as your email address will definitely be picked up. It's a good thing you got her email addr wrong above :-)

There's no reason to think that at least some of these crawlers aren't smart enough at this point to pick up common patterns like "at" and "dot" but it still makes it a little harder, since "at" and "dot" occur frequently in English, and @ does not. If you're really nervous about it I recommend doing something less conventional -- even skigurl eat sonic doot net would be considerably less likely to be picked up.

"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL

by oblique on Apr 9, 2008 10:43 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs