I want to put my email address in a public place in the hopes that real people I don know will email me, but I don want to get picked up by spambots. Can you help?
A. You could provide a disposable address with a high number (like 20) — that should give real people enough tries at reaching you before the spambots catch up, and you can reply to the people with your real address, or add their addresses as trusted senders. If you want to receive an indefinite number of messages from unknown real people off your publicly disclosed address, we can’t really help (not really true any more — see sgmailto below). [note: as of June 9, 2001, you could ‘refill’ your address with more messages in advanced mode if it ran out – that’s true for all addresses, even if they’re older] However, one method we’ve seen used is to use your real email address with extra characters that make it invalid (like ‘_nospam_’). Then, in your message, instruct real people to remove the characters if they want to send you email. Spambots are getting smarter all the time, but this one should stump them for awhile yet. We’ve seen some spamgourmet users do effectively the same thin
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