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 ## Author
 
-[ciscoconfparse][3] was written by [David Michael Pennington][25] (mike \[\~at\~\] pennington \[.dot.\] net).
+[ciscoconfparse][3] was written by [David Michael Pennington][25]
 
 ## Interesting Users (and some downstream projects)