But why do I need to go through all the faff of changing e-mail addresses all the time (so missing some genuine ones) / having an e-mail I don’t mind spam in / having a better spam filter (gmail sometimes filters genuine messages and I miss them), when every other forum I use has PM which works quite well and most people seem to use.
Ironically, the very reason gravitar probably isn’t working for people is that it relies on e-mail address to link the image properly, and they’ve faffed around with that to avoid spam!
the so called ‘disguises’ could be easily penetrated with a simple script
Indeed graham@d.n Changing AT to @ and removing spaces is child’s play.