I hate spambots. I never should have put my email address on my website to begin with. Instead, I've had to sacrifice a perfectly good email address because it was getting too much spam. I still have to get around to removing my email address from my online resume, but everything else now goes to a contact form. (There are ways to disguise an email address with JavaScript, but the best way to keep an address out of the clutches of a spambot is to not post it in the first place. I hope at some point to upgrade the "email" field in the comments posting to do automatic JS disguising...)
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February 20, 2002
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You might not notice a reduction in spam right away unless you change your email address. I route mail to my old address into a spam folder, and I've gotten several dozen pieces since the switch. It'd be great if my old address were eventually purged from lists, but I doubt it will be.
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I use that javascript address 'scrambler.' Just installed it a few days ago. I'll let you know if I notice a drastic reduction in spam.