Regardless of how careful you are with your email address, you will eventually get spammed. Have you ever wondered how your address gets on spam lists, then this article titled ‘Catching Spammers in the Act‘ is worth a read.
Basically the findings were consistent with what you would expect. If your email address is posted on a popular site (or any site), you will most likely get spammed (eventually). If you are going to post your email, one thing to keep in mind:
using simple obfuscation techniques–for example, using “-at-” to replace the “@” symbol in an e-mail address. The researchers found that these methods frustrate current spam techniques surprisingly well.
Additionally, they found that submitting your email to a reputable site most like will not result in spam, so your “jun email account” may not be needed after all.
Again, nothing shocking here, just a reminder that you do want to be careful where you post your email.
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It’s surprising how they do it. Most if not all business get a huge amount of spam. There is a few other techniques out there to reduce the spam levels but if you ever made a mistake in the past you will always pay for it. The only method left is damage limitation through filters.
Another method of putting a email address on a website is to have a picture. This method as been around for a while now but webmasters choose not to do to use them, the same as using “at” instead of @ and the JavaScript method.
The main reason for this is it ticks off any user that want to email you. especially if your domain is hard to spell or long.
I would say the JavaScript method would be the best if it does not inconvenience the user but it does not work if JavaScript is turned off in the browser.
Nothing at the moment is bullet proof for what is considered normal use.
Will SeacoastNH25@aol.com get spammed because I post here? Or is this site protected?
Thanks, SeacoastNH25@aol.com