I'll concede, I'm a little under-protected when it comes to spam in my email, and sectioning my usage out to different emails would probably be a very big impro

I'll concede, I'm a little under-protected when it comes to spam in my email, and sectioning my usage out to different emails would probably be a very big improvement upon that. Still, this ought be more a pet-peeve for myself. I can't see how obscuring my email would bother you, except perhaps in the line of thought that you think it does NOTHING to avoid spam, and I am just wasting a tiny amount of everyone's time by having them parse it while not benefiting personally. I figured if there was ever a profile a geek would write a scraper for, HN would probably be it. It was a single line of defense I saw others use, and adopted. Appreciate the conversation. The mostly undiscussed behavior of email format preference in HN profiles is something that has always strangely held my attention; I consider myself a geek for micro-behaviors in this and most any community though.