I think if you used that masking code on the address and had it set to say something like ‘email me’, that should be fine, but the site Kristine linked to displays the address by default.

And this time round, I’m not having a catch-all. I think that will make a difference.

If a user can’t figure THAT out, I’m not terribly sure I want to talk to them….

Really, though, I’ve had the most success with just creating spamdrop addresses. My comments@domesticat.net address is a spamdrop, as is my domesticat@hotmail.com address. I have other addresses at domesticat.net, and those are only given to humans.

My rule: I only give my real address out to people whom I feel comfortable harassing. Period. It means that ONLY friends, family, and the occasional ‘net correspondent get my real address. That, and some pretty stringent spam filters (I worship SpamAssassin) take care of the rest.

Even thought google’s cache still displays that address, I *think* the point was that bots are searching through the html code, and when it doesn’t find the combination of @ and . that it is looking for, it doesn’t really find the email address. BUT, I’m really no expert on this, this is just what I’ve thought to be the case in the last months since I found these tools to mask the addresses
What do you think?

Now I write my address like row at rowf dot net. I think people are clever enough to figure that out, and I don’t think spambots pick up on it.

The one I’ve been using most recently is here:

http://zamok.crans.org/~raffo/antispam/aem/

(always nice to have more than one link, in case one goes down, right)?

The problem with their hivelogic email encoder is that it puts it in javascript. For the people surfing w/JS off, they won’t see your email address, will then?
So here’s my solution - the Email Obfuscator at Bonni’s site. It does a similar thing but w/o the JS part I’m trying to convert all the links over on my pages to this format because I get SO much spam!!!