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Aulig | 7 months ago

It's to fool primitive scrapers looking for e-mail addresses with the @ symbol. It's handled like that on the entire KIT website.

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amelius|7 months ago

This can't be it because on mouseover I get the mailto: link with the @ symbol in it.

CodesInChaos|7 months ago

Contradictions like that are common. A popular example:

* Failed login: I can't tell you if the username/email or password was wrong, since that'd reveal if the the user exists

* Failed signup attempt with existing username/email: Cannot create an account, because a user with that username/email already exists