Busy — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:08:22 +0000

Is easy to test, get yourself a throw away hotmail account and on a popular site (your own) add the javascript snipet mentioned in the first post (with your new hotmail address), but make a slight change to the above snipet, add to the document write tags (so as it only displays in the source).
don't use the address for anything else.

If you use an htacess file to block bots don't waste your time with this experiment.
It will take a wee while to be found, but you will be found and spammed before to long.
Adding this to a contact page would be found before most others, index and contact are main targets

AyntRyte — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 05:41:54 +0000

You may be right, but I've been using full unicode in mailto's for about 3 years and have minimal spam due only to others not protecting my address. And (following your hypothesis) a Google search for my email address does not return any pages I have published which include my mailto.

Busy — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:55:09 +0000

image (no alt tag) or server side form is the ONLY way that works - bad bots/spiders are the same breed as search engine bots/spiders, they read the output as well as the source in most cases

AyntRyte — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:54:27 +0000

I use this tool. It unicodes everything from mailto: to the link text.

rehash — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:01:51 +0000

the best way is to make an image where to show the email address, or just generate an image from php/asp

chrishirst — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:41:30 +0000

Couple of ideas here Hide email address

I haven't done the PHP version as yet.

vibins — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:12:39 +0000

If you have access to any serverside languages you might consider using a contact form.