Making email addresses safe from bots on a webpage?

Question

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

joe.somebody@company.com

or use a clever trick to try and fo

Answer 1

Invent your own crazy email address obfuscation scheme. Doesn't matter what it is, really, as long as it's not too similar to any of the commonly known methods.

The problem is that there really isn't a good solution to this, they're all either relatively simple to bypass, or rather irritating for the user. If any one method becomes prevalent, then someone will find a way around it.

So rather than looking for the One True email address obfuscation technique, come up with your own. Count on the fact that these bot authors don't care enough about your site to sit around writing a thing to bypass your slightly crazy rendering-text-with-css-and-element-borders or your completely bizarre, easily-cracked javascript encryption. It doesn't matter if it's trivial, nobody will bother trying to bypass it just so they can spam you.