Question

When placing email addresses on a webpage do you place them as text like this:

[e-mail] 

or use a clever trick to try and fool the email address harvester bots? For example:

HTML Escape Characters:

joe.somebody@company.com 

Javascript Decrypter:

function XOR_Crypt(EmailAddress) {     Result = new String();     for (var i = 0; i < EmailAddress.length; i++)     {         Result += String.fromCharCode(EmailAddress.charCodeAt(i) ^ 128);     }     document.write(Result); }  XOR_Crypt('êïå®óïíåâïäùÀãïíðáîù®ãïí'); 

Human Decode:

[e-mail]  joe.somebody AT company.com 

What do you use or do you even bother?

Answer 1

I generally don’t bother. I used to be on a mailing list that got several thousand spams every day. Our spam filter (spamassassin) let maybe 1 or 2 a day through. With filters this good, why make it difficult for legitimate people to contact you?