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by dagw 3345 days ago
I once got exactly the same request and said "sure that will only take a few minutes" . I turned out that half the places where the e-mail appeared was in images. So instead of a simple search-replace job it suddenly turned into either a Photoshop job or a completely redesign non-trivial parts of the site job.
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It's unfortunate that anti-spam strategies introduce so many inefficiencies into our daily lives, from developers to end users.