alt Hacker News> My email and matrix id are both on my front page at https://www.grepular.com
I've been tempted to put my email address directly on my personal site but just assumed I'd be flooded with automated spam. How have you found it?
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I sort of need public contact info. Maybe I obfuscate a bit on my site though I would need to look. Modern hosted email systems seem pretty good at filtering the real spam.
But I also need to coordinate with folks with respect to conference meetings and the like so my email is pretty public.
not OP, but my current solution is to have a link which says "click to show email", with javascript handler that changes that link's href (and text) to email address, which is somehow computed. For example, by taking page URL and performing some regexp on it. It both avoids storing email in page source in plain text and requires human interaction, so feels good enough.
Another way I've seen elsewhere is to use a human-language explanation of how to build email address, something like this: "To get my email address, combine my first name (John) with my birth year (2000), separated by dash (-), and add email provider (@gmail.com)".
I host my own email. I use a default SpamAssassin configuration along with some basic greylisting. I barely get any spam. Maybe one every month or two.
I have a direct mailto: link to my email address in the footer of my website. Zero obfuscation. I don't get any unusually large volume of spam. Maybe Fastmail's filters are that good, or maybe scraping emails off the web just isn't worth the spammers' time anymore and they've all moved on to posting thirst traps on Instagram. I dunno. Hasn't been a problem either way.