This came from Ramon, one of our frequent contributors:
I saw this and just in case there are bots that
pick our addresses up. Don't know if this can help at all.
WEBMASTERS TIP - Hide Your Email Address from Spammers
Note: In code examples I add a period after each left arrow bracket so the
code can be viewed in all email programs. If you copy and paste, be sure
to remove the periods or it won't work.
When you place an email link on your web site so people can contact you, it's
also spider food for spammers. A spammer points his little robot at a web
address and has it collect email addresses on that page, then it follows the
links and collects email addresses from those pages,and so on until he stops
it or it collects a preset amount of addresses.
If you use the ASCII equivalent for the @ symbol instead of using the actual
symbol, you can trick most spiders into passing by your email address without
adding it to the spammers list.
Here's an example:
<.a href="mailto:you@yourdomain.com">Email
Me</a>
As you can see, I substituted @ for the @ symbol. It will still show up on
your web page as if you coded it using the @ symbol, and your email link will
work just the same.
That will cause most spiders to slide right past your email address and never
pick it up. However, one smart spider now looks for the @ code as well as
the @ symbol. You can thwart them too, by coding your whole email address. For
example:
dork@flipdipper.com
..codes to:
dork@flip
dipper.com
I doubt if there are any spiders that will pick up on that, and it still works
as an email link. You have to make sure you don't have any linebreaks in the
code like you see here, or it will break the link. You'll find a free online
utility to code your whole address at:
http://fantomaster.com/fantomasSuite/shadowCoder/fascodersv-e.cgi