In my genealogy quest I was told to contact the city offices and given contact info. Here is what it says. ou.nosalov&melnik.cesnet.cz (& = arrobas) Would that mean ou.nosalov@melnik.cesnet.cz, like some Americans write out "friend (a) yahoo.com?"
arroba = an old Spanish unit of measure whose symbol is @ I imagine it is an e-mail address ou.nosalov(at)melnik.cesnet.cz you are correct
Yes, it is quite meaningful. “OU” stands for “Obecní úřad” (= Municipality Office), “Nosalov” (Nosálov) is the name of the municipality, “Melnik” (Mělník) is the district name and “cesnet” is a Czech Network. I googled this address and result indicates it is obsolete. Both the municipality site and the Portal of the Public Administration give obecnosalov@volny.cz as the recent address.
You guys have just posted the poor obecní úřad's email address for spammers to grab and misuse. I suggest you don't post full email addresses in your posts but use a format like this: "ou(dot)nosalov(at)melnik(dot)cesnet(dot)cz".
First, I don’t think it is necessary in this case, since the addresses figure in public directories. And second, the recent bots are able to grab this (dot)-(at)-convention as well. You have to use something more original. :wink:
Wer is right. Today's robots are probably able to read email addresses even from images. We already lost this battle, I'm afraid. Fight was transfered to email clients, where advanced algorithms are analazing content of emails and they throwing spam aside. And this strategy works pretty well for now, I think.
You're right. I just thought there was no need to post it here as well. Oh dear, I was hoping this trick still worked. So the battle goes on... :evil:
tečka and na. That's a good idea Glenn. Good thinking. There has to be some way to outsmart those bots.
Zavináč is common Czech name for @ sign. Original meaning of zavináč is rollmop. Do you see resemblance?
Sorry - I forgot to explain WHAT a zavináč is...thanks, Eso...too bad you couldn't find a picture from the end, which would make it more clear (I tried as well, with no luck).
I understand - in English the symbol @ has no official name, just called at symbol, at sign, or simply at - the closest approximation I could come up with in Czech seemed to be na (translated usually as at when refering to a place) - I considered u also but decided its meaning was more like "close to" or "near". zavináč makes perfect sense because that is what the symbol is called in Czech (a new word for me)
