Does Email Address Obfuscation Actually Prevent Spam?

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Published on Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:00:07 GMT Indexed on 2012/11/29 23:11 UTC
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Many people obfuscate their email addresses–typing out someguy (at) somedomain (dot) com, for example–to project themselves from SPAM bots. Do such obfuscation techniques actually work?

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