Is there really a point to any of this? It's a fun exercise, but also a complete waste of time if you're actually trying to hide from spammers. You're making a

Is there really a point to any of this? It's a fun exercise, but also a complete waste of time if you're actually trying to hide from spammers. You're making a piece of information public by sharing it with the entire world, yet somehow expecting it to only stay accessible to the "good guys". Unless you change your email address at least monthly, all it takes is for one person or company to share your contact with someone else or enter it into a database/CRM, or one service to get breached, then your email address is on a list that eventually gets propagated to every spammer worldwide. If you use that email with any regularity, the chance of those things happening can be rounded up to 100%. If hiding your email address from scrapers actually worked, spam wouldn't exist. I never published my personal contact anywhere, yet I get dozens of spam emails per week. They all get filtered as spam, it's not a big deal.