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Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres... by FaceKicker on Sunday September 30, 2012 @10:23PM (#4595021)
Regardless of the effectiveness of spam filters (unless they are literally perfect - 100% precision and 100% recall), doing something like the "Building with Javascript" method seems strictly better than doing nothing based on the linked study - it reduces spam by 99.3% and adds no work for humans who want to email you. Except for humans who have JS disabled by default, I guess...
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Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres... by nickknw on Sunday September 30, 2012 @11:07PM (#4595127)
That's exactly why I use a combination method on my personal website[0].

By default it uses the JS method for a clickable link, but if someone doesn't have JS enabled it degrades to "Email: nick at this domain (For a clickable link, turn on javascript)".

It relies on the assumption that 'someone not using javascript' == 'someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means', but for the people that are likely to be reading my site, I think that's a pretty safe assumption to make.

[0] - http://nickknowlson.com/contact/

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Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres... by weinzierl on Monday October 01, 2012 @06:44AM (#4596175)
'someone not using javascript' == 'someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means' || crawler
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Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres... by nickknw on Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:57PM (#4615208)
Are you saying:

'someone not using javascript' == ('someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means' || crawler)?

If so, yes that's the point. I don't want to give crawlers my email address.

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