On 09/03/10 12:12, Florian Pritz wrote:
On 03.09.2010 17:21, Ray Rashif wrote:
I'm also in favour of standardising the mangling used there; personal preference, right, but currently it looks like a mess.
Don't obfuscate the addresses at all.
If your mail provider isn't able to reject spam you should really consider switching. Obviously google does a really bad job there or is there some other reason most gmail addresses are obfuscated?
No spam filter can junk 100% of the spam and not-junk 100% of the non-spam, this world doesn't work quite perfectly that way, although filters can be pretty good currently. My strategy: create a special e-mail address for use un-obfuscated on Internet technical sites (mailinglist, bugtracker, source-code commit, whatever), knowing that it will be spammed; and use a different e-mail address to give to people I know, knowing that - while it *might* get into the hands of spammers through viruses and the like - it won't be as spammy as an address that's published on the internet (so that the probability improves that neither the spam-filter nor my eyes will consider a message from someone I know from corporeal life to be spam.) -Isaac