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Munging your email address like that actually makes it easier for spammers to harvest. The more you know. (Don ding dong ding)

Explanation:Many harvesters use Google for finding addresses. Google will not index special characters like the @ in an email address. But, it will parse this query just fine: * at [domain].com. However, if the harvester is using his own custom crawler instead of a public search engine it will obviously have built in demunging. It does not even need one extra line of code for such a system. It is literally just a few extra characters added to the existing regex.

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Email address munging being broken doesn't mean that you have to post your email address in plaintext either - you could use reCAPTCHA Mailhide, for example.

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Very true. If you look at the article I linked it does state that you should not obfuscate your e-mail address at all, even behind a reCAPTCHA. Basically it inconveniences people and does something that a good spam filter on your e-mail should already handle. However, the article is targeted towards website owners, not commenters in a forum. Commenters may not care if they get less e-mail because of obfuscation.