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Expanding on the different contexts:

For small websites, you could probably filter 100% of spam just by making an unconventional captcha or a weird javascript form that bots don't recognize as a form. Spammers probably won't bother to create a custom solution for some tiny website or even look directly at the website.

Similarly you could hide most email addresses by adding it into an image. Image-to-text conversion is pretty good these days so it's not a perfect solution though. I wonder if you could somehow mask it, like by making a gif animation that starts out empty but then shows the email, or rendering it as an SVG path.

>>12999
>Similarly you could hide most email addresses by adding it into an image.
I've always wondered how effective those hiding in plain sight techniques are, like when people say something along the lines of "you can contact me by sending an electronic message to ass on the domain known as balls.com". I suppose AI might make extracting those in an automated fashion more feasible?

KISS, just make spamming expensive. Ban any subnet that spams, and then reject all emails from them with a note that says they have to pay to get unbanned.

>>13000
I doubt spammers are using some kind of content analysis tools to find email addresses because nobody really hides them like that, at most people add spaces or parentheses around @ or replace it with "(at)" or something. I've seen a few websites that put their email onto an image.

I think sharing the contact address indirectly is very powerful at stopping the vast majority if not all bot spam, but it'll only work as long as it's unpopular so it's not any kind of final solution to spam. Replacing the "@" and "." with images would probably be enough too, it's unlikely that any bot is smart enough to figure out there's an email there unless they render the whole page and use an image-to-text converter on that (which they might start doing if everyone starts obscuring their addresses).

There are some very advanced techniques to del with spam. Take a look at rspamd, you can use bayes classifier https://rspamd.com/doc/configuration/statistic.html and even neural network https://rspamd.com/doc/modules/neural.html to deal with spam.
With how llms are popular today, I am surprised that it is not commonly done.

>>13004
There's way too many people, even in business settings, who speak like troglodytes, and chat bots are indistinguishable from humans at this point. I don't see how analyzing sentence structure can detect a bot for that reason. AI may be able to do something but I'm not very confident about it because a lot of spam mail sound very similar some kind of business offers, who knows though.

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That's what happens when you put your email address somewhere where it can be scrapped or give it to a company that sells it.
There is no solution to that if you want a permanent address inbox open to anyone.

You could regularly change the public address while staying connected with important people with SimpleX which I made a thread about but nobody is gonna use that just to write some stranger one message. I could be wrong though.

So there you go. It's gonna stay fucked.
I receive no sms spam though. Probably because it costs money to send them or because I haven't given it to any shitty websites nor posted on the web.

As others said, putting it in an image is probably a good solution.
Maybe put it vertically in the image and make @ larger, so it can't be ocr'd as easily.