Here's my technique. I use +folder notation (me+folder@gmail.com) for my publicly listed email address. Any spambot that regexps \W or [a-z0-9\.] will get scr

Here's my technique. I use +folder notation (me+folder@gmail.com) for my publicly listed email address. Any spambot that regexps \W or [a-z0-9\.] will get screwed up by the + that appears in the address. However, it's still a totally legal address, it delivers correctly, is clickable in browsers, etc. It's not that I get a low level of spam at this public address - I get ZERO spam. Zero in the last 5 years. I get a small amount addressed to the plain me@gmail.com address, but it seems like spambots just don't pattern match for this. Anyway, it's still a gmail address, and their spam filtering might have something to do with this.