Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

["Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>]

On 06.04.2021 01:14, Celejar wrote:

> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 15:51:28 -0400
> > Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> > Because it doesn't work. If it worked as well as, say, moving
> > your SSH port*, I would encourage it. It does not.
> Source? Is this your personal experience, or do you have some other
> basis for this? Cloudflare, for example, asserts that:
>
> "Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation helps in spam prevention by
> hiding email addresses appearing in your pages from email harvesters
> and other bots, while remaining visible to your site visitors."
>
>     
    I think you see spam problem from the wrong perspective.
    You might think "spammer" is a person with some home brewed script
    that pray upon unsuspecting web-sites.
    Spam is a whole industry and there are large spam groups who make
    profit from spam alone. They are capable to create private and
    commercial applications for data-mining and constantly update them
    with new tricks to fight new obfuscation methods for an example.
    They use collected data to create databases of emails (categorize
    them, add country\area information, etc) which later could be traded
    among spam community members and\or sold to companies who want to
    implement aggressive advertisements.
    So once your email, even if it was obfuscated, gets into said
    databases there is no escape from spam.
    This is the reason why obfuscation doesn't work.
    
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With kindest regards, Alexander.

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