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I've discovered that the most effective trick is to use an email address that is considered invalid by most email scrapers but valid by most mail servers. I ha
by Sephr 3y ago
I've discovered that the most effective trick is to use an email address that is considered invalid by most email scrapers but valid by most mail servers.
I have an unobfuscated mailto: link on my blog and I receive barely any spam to my public email address, ~@eligrey.com
- brightball 3y agoSame. I took over a programming conference earlier this year and it uses a .codes domain.
- jonchurch_ 3y agoOP was saying that their email is literally ~@eligrey.com He’s saying this works bc scrapers might not match a left hand side of an @ that contains no alphanumerics
- brightball 3y agoI get that. I think the less common domain extensions are having a similar effect right now though.
- IshKebab 3y agoI guess you have a different email address that you use for website signups, shopping etc?
- Sephr 3y agoIndeed! I also maintain a list of entities that have leaked the unique email addresses that I have shared with them.[1] 1. https://gist.github.com/eligrey/5084991 https://gist.github.com/eligrey/5084991
- justinhj 3y ago~@eligrey.com implies it's not you, I would add an alias for ~~@eligrey.com for the comfort of any programmer friends.
- forgotpwd16 3y agoBut ~user is user's home for Unix friends.
- ryan-c 3y agoPeople have gotten... upset... when I submit pull requests on github as `wget${IFS}r.vc/ghe`@ryanc.org
- apitman 3y agoOo just the other day I discovered that "&ers" is a great way to shorten my name. It's also a valid email handle. Maybe I should make it my public address.