Cory Doctorow wrote about this in a column last year: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/21/keeping-email-address-secret-spambots http://www.guardian

Cory Doctorow wrote about this in a column last year: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/21/keeping-email-address-secret-spambots http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/21/keeping-ema... He's had the same public email address published without obfuscation for more than 10 years. He describes his anti-spam setup which has served him reliably and argues that the nuisance imposed on correspondents by scrambling his address isn't worth it.