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iwz Sep 20, 2003

"address at domain dot com" might be good. alternatively, addressREMOVE@NOSPAMdomain.com might work too.

ok4now Sep 22, 2003

that doesn't seem very professional. is there another way?

iwz Sep 23, 2003

just thought of another way try this: email @ domain . com That might fool them

deanh77 deanh77Founder

scrapers are pretty intelligent. I think this would be easy for the to figure out. They'd just make a rule that searches for @ signs and take x words before it, and x words after it, and create a few email addresses out of educated combinations. They don't care if 90% of the email addresses they generate are bogus.

basically, what you need to do is think of a scheme thats original, hard for a program to parse, but easy for a human. doing the same thing as everyone else does will not work, if everybody started adopting the same email obfuscation rule (i.e. everyone did "myemail_at_NOSPAM_ezabel_com") the scraper programs would just incorporate a rule to check for that format.

iwz iwz

you really think that they go to those great lengths to parse out obfuscated emails?

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