Stopping spammers harvesting your published email address?

[TheBigCheese]

Hi guys

I've got an email address published on my website and received my first piece of spam yesterday (eek!), obviously the address has been harvested.

How can I go about stopping this happening?

I have read of ways of putting simple html inbetween the letters in the address such as bolding and unbolding so it doesn't look like an address to a bot but a person doesn't notice.

I've also read about forms which I don't really want to use and automated email encoders.


What would everyone recommend?

(P.S. My html knowledge is extremely limited so keep it simple please!)

Thanks.

 

[TheBigCheese]

Thanks for the links guys!

I've had a stab at using unicode:
Unicode

I've tested it and it seems to be doing the trick, my actual email address isn't shown anywhere on the webpage, any instances of it have been replaced with "click here to contact us" and the 'mailto' instruction now has a code behind it instead of an address.

Hopefully it'll work, what do you think?