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

I wouldn't bother -- it is fighting the SPAM war at the wrong level. Particularly for company web sites I think it makes things look very unprofessional if you have anything other than the straight text on the page with a mailto hyperlink.

There is so much spam flying around that you need good filtering anyway, and any bot is going end up understanding all the common tricks anyway.