Mehmet Tolga Avcioglu wrote:
Isn't it also strange that everybody assumes "name at domain dot com" is so much harder to parse than "name@domain.com" by the spam bots. The image solution is better but as you said won't work unless it is a universal effort which is not achievable.
"name at domain dot com" probably isn't harder to parse, but I suspect at the moment most spam harvesters can't be bothered to implement that functionality when there's more than enough unprotected email addresses on the web for them to use already. I suspect though that if everyone suddenly changed to the other format then the spammers would pick up on this pretty quickly.
Image solutions don't work even if they're universally applied, it's not exactly difficult to download an image and extract the text from it - unless you obscure the text of course but then that makes it difficult for ordinary people to read and impossible for anyone with a visual disability.
Paul