I was channel surfing today, and on CNN 2 aka Headline News I caught this informed banter:
(transcribed as accurately as possible)
Female Newscaster: (Somebody from Somewhere) writes "In order to stop spam I've made my email a random string of 25 characters so that spammers won't want to type it out. The spam seems to have decreased" - Good Idea! Because nobody wants to type out all those letters!
Male Newscaster: That's true! Somebody has to type them out to send you spam.
Uh.... Wow.