Spam-free email addresses for your web site

If you have PHP or ASP enabled on your web site, you can have 100% protection from automated email-harvesting spambots with DB Master's form mailer. This script hides your email address in the PHP or ASP coding, and you cannot get the address by any means, not even by viewing the source.

If you have neither ASP nor PHP available, then you must have a terrible web host. You are not left out however. Robert Graham has created a tool on his site that will use various methods to convert your email address. Instead of letters and numbers, it gives you a string of symbols and numbers which presumably spambots cannot interpret as a valid address.

Using this method, there is no need to use a graphic of your address, as most browsers should be able to interpret the gibberish properly. I recommend saving the page to your hard drive so that you can use it even when not connected to the internet.

The page is at http://www.robertgraham.com/tools/mailtoencoder.html

Unfortunately, this last method is not foolproof. Some spambots will still be able to read the address, although why a spammer would believe an address harvested like this will be useful is a mystery. However, it should keep the overwhelming majority of spammers away.