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		ape4 on April 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Re-Thinking Electronic Mail Is that really a copyright symbol? I would think most webforms would reject that.

billpg on April 12, 2020 [–]

I suspect someone writing on a phone accidentally picked the wrong symbol, meaning to use @.

giaour on April 13, 2020 | | [–]

Too late to edit the original comment, but this is exactly what happened

ape4 on April 12, 2020 | | [–]

Maybe they could reserve one alphanumerical character for this purpose.

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