& a m p . What did I miss?

[Seafort]

Why is this being used now?

In url's I have seen it used but most browsers are ok with just & (Lets see)
(Well in preview anyway)


Awaiting enlightenment.

Dave.

 

[sarabande]

&amp equals etcetera


some villainous characters use bots to search for URLs, so it's also an attempt to circumvent their systems by replacing an alphanumeric by a word. e.g.

@ AT
& ampersand
. dot

I have a view that if villains are really that concerned to collect addresses, they run up a bit of code to substitute @ for AT.