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One very common way to keep your e-mail address from being harvested is to use JavaScript. The only problem with this technique is that some people have JavaScript turned off and won't be able to use this feature.
Here are three JavaScripts that you can use.
This is
simplest script you can use.
Replace YOUREMAIL with your e-mail address, like JeffColburn and replace YOURDOMAIN with your domain name, like CreativeCauldron. Then paste this JavaScript wherever you want your e-mail address to appear
The following JavaScript will create a text link.
The link will look like JeffColburn@CreativeCauldron.com
This next inline JavaScript lets you create your link text. Just replace Your Link Text with whatever you want displayed on your website. It can be, Click here to e-mail, My e-mail address, or whatever you want.
Your Link Text
Tim Williams has an interesting solution to
e-mail harvesting problem by turning your e-mail address into ISO-Latin-1 code. Take a look at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~trw/spam/spam.htm
If you're feeling adventurous, go to http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Protecting-Your-Users-Email-Addresses-with-PHP-and-MySQL/639 and you will find a tutorial that will tell you how to hide your e-mail address using PHP.
This should give you a good arsenal of weapons against having your e-mail address harvested, and cut down on your daily dose of spam. But remember to keep current with anti-spam techniques. Spamers will eventually find a way around these measures so you'll want to stay one step ahead of them.

http://www.CreativeCauldron.com Jeff Colburn is a website designer and writer. His goal is to make the process of creating or updating your website easy and simple for you, while creating a website that meets all your needs and expectations. Jeff can also create all of the copy for your website.