thoughts on masking email addresses

[Ashy]

Looking for a solution (other than not having it on the page) of stopping email addresses being harvested from web pages.

Ideally I dont want to use images as these just look crap so is there a way to have a clickable email address displayed without it being eaten up and spammed within an inch of its life?

Thanks,
Ash

[vincevincevince]

A contact form via PHP or PERL (or something else) does wonders - you don't need to disclose your address to continue to get email.

[Xapti]

your best bet is probably obfuscation, something like href="mailto:joeblue*remove*@joesmail.com"
other ways of the same method are: "mailto:joeblue_at_joesmail_dot_com", but my guess is there's some smart bots out there that can discypher that.

And what do you mean by images looking crap? depending on that, you may want to use a small flash button, as I think it hides the address from bots pretty well (I don't know, but it seems like solid defence)