@ At sign

Originally posted by Agerg
Why not!...can't do anything this weekend as I've got a lot of work on but if you're up for it we can get it sorted and arrange a meet-up for next saturday or something. (though your chess ranking is way above mine...I know practically zero opening theory and kind of bluff my way through the middle game):]

I'm not around next Saturday, i'm out of town for the day, and i'm away the Saturday after that. Have are you for week days? As i mainly work evenings, i'm pretty flexible druing the day.

Originally posted by Proper Knob
I'm not around next Saturday, i'm out of town for the day, and i'm away the Saturday after that. Have are you for week days? As i mainly work evenings, i'm pretty flexible druing the day.

No worries...for weekdays mondays, tuesdays and thursdays are out, wednesdays I'm usually free but uni events are often held on these days (one this coming weds), fridays are ok.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Not to quibble, but...

I believe the @ in email usage is a symbolic trigger with no more meaning other than its superficial one, i.e., 'at,' thereby allowing certain transmissions to be routed to certain domains and others to other domains. So I can somewhat see a person appropriating the sign for these types of ventures, in that they're addressing a s ...[text shortened]... erroneously, as an abbreviation for 'attention,' thus my charge of it sounding stupid.

Well if you think about it "Attention" would also sound rather odd, if you had not previously heard it used in that context. Put another way it sounds rather rude: "Pay attention, I'm talking to you!".
The fact is that language changes and the use of "To" or "Attention" or "@" are little more than tradition and none is more stupid than the other. It may sound odd or sound stupid to you, but largely because you are new to it. In a few years it will sound normal, and "Attention" will sound old fashioned.

I was taught in school to address all letters "Dear ...". Yet nowadays all my emails start with "Hi ....,".

Language changes.