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A friend wanted to share with me some of  the  photos taken on his graduation day and asked for my email address. The next thing I did was to text him the following address : xxxxxxx at yahoo dot com. 
Being polite as always, he wrote back, " Did you mean to say,  
xxxxxxx@yahoo.com ?  
Allahuakbar! How embarrassing! I spelled out everything in the address ; including the Dot ! Ha ha ! Malu nyer!!  Please excuse me yea coz that was 20 years back when email was still new to me!