Gmail does a great job of keeping spam out of my box, but I still have to go through the spam folder occasionally to look for false positives (I get a couple a year), so I'd prefer as little spam in there as possible.
As for obfuscating, I use methods which require the reader to think, not to apply a rule. All the obfuscation methods presented in the superuser answer can be algorithmically beaten. Mine can't. It requires understanding the words I used. That is, unless it gets copied enough times to be recognized as a standard pattern for obfuscation. But if that happens, I can just change it to something else that requires reading and understanding.
While your obfuscating method is probably reasonable your email address is probably an issue. It's not hard for a spam company to send email to every basic pattern on 2 letters and a last name. When you can send a thousand messages for a penny it's acceptable for 99% to be sent to the wrong address.
PS: My first Gmail account got spam before I started to use it.
Gmail does a great job of keeping spam out of my box, but I still have to go through the spam folder occasionally to look for false positives (I get a couple a year), so I'd prefer as little spam in there as possible.
As for obfuscating, I use methods which require the reader to think, not to apply a rule. All the obfuscation methods presented in the superuser answer can be algorithmically beaten. Mine can't. It requires understanding the words I used. That is, unless it gets copied enough times to be recognized as a standard pattern for obfuscation. But if that happens, I can just change it to something else that requires reading and understanding.