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I think the main thing people forget with stuff like this is that yes, all these setups are possible (or even trivial) to bypass, but you're not really dealing with a dedicated adversary that's targeting you in particular.

Spammers probably aren't going to update their tools to take into account every possible way every site obfuscates their email addresses, so the main trick to dealing with them would be to do something other sites/services don't. If you or your company become successful enough that people are actually targeting you in particular, then congrats, you're probably in a good place anyway.



> Spammers probably aren't going to update their tools to take into account every possible way every site obfuscates their email addresses

But this is also sort of a security through obscurity approach, if enough people adopt one of these methods of obfuscation then the spammers absolutely will change their tools.




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