What's with the funky email address?

Spelling my email address like this <bulldogad66-contact "at" yahoo "dot" com> helps me avoid Spambots.

A Spambot is a piece of software that specializes in gathering email addresses for a spammer to use.
It basically cruises around the internet and saves any email addresses it finds as it goes along.

Most Spambots only look for recognizable email addresses (i.e., name@name.com) or "mailto" tags.

So the challenge is to communicate my email address in a format that a Spambot won't recognize.

Thus the funky email address.