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

Use a contact form instead. Put all of your email addresses into a database and create an HTML form (subject, body, from ...) that submits the contents of the email that the user fills out in the form (along with an id or name that is used to lookup that person's email address in your database) to a server side script that then sends an email to the specified person. At no time is the email address exposed. You will probably want to implement some form of CAPTCHA to deter spambots as well.