Comment by amelius

21 hours ago

What is the partial derivative symbol doing in their email address (last line of the page)?

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

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

    • 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

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