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Notes on Email Addresses (used on this website).
Please note that all email addresses used on this website have been
written in a special way, so as to disguise them (so that they do not
look like valid email addresses) in the HTML source.
The reason for doing this is explained in the last paragraph.
This should not affect you.
When you click on one of our email links, your local email
editor will be started and the 'To' address will be filled in for
you. This email address should be a valid email address (ie it
should take the form name@potteriesantiquecentre.com).
If it is not, please correct it before sending.
Why have we had to disguise email addresses ?
We have been forced to do this because of a significant, and increasing,
problem of 'spam' (unsolicited email messages) - a problem of
which many of you will be aware.
Spammers (those who send spam) often use software to automate the process
of first gathering email addresses from web pages and then performing
bulk email transmissions. The gathering (or "harvesting", as it is often
known) is done by software programs known as 'robots' which scour the
Internet/web for web pages, and then extract and compile a list of
email addresses - or rather, what appear to be valid email addresses.
This usually involves scanning for strings of the form X@Y.Z, so
disguising the email addresses is usually sufficient to fool the robots.
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