Another Trick for Avoiding Email Harvesters
Most people know that spammers have robots that surf the net looking for email addresses, such programs are called email harvesters. Many people try to use JavaScript to trick these harvesters, but another technique that you can use, is by creating a link that redirects to a mailto:you@address address. You can do this with services like shurl.org or tinyurl.com. Here's an example of such a link: http://shurl.org/email_pete
Note that just like the javascript solutions its still possible that the harvesters will get your address, if they try to follow the link, and can detect this technique. The best solution is to just create a form and send the email with your web application server. Not everyone has that luxury however.
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So me@example.com would become this for use in href attribute (lets see if it shows correctly):
mailto:%6d%65%40%65%78%61%6d%70%6c%65%2e%63%6f%6d
And HTML-escaped for using as link name:
me@example.com
So first is every email character URLescaped (you have to loop over characters and do FormatBaseN(Asc(char),16) in CF for example), and HTMLescaped with ampersand, hash, and character Asc() value.
Browsers display it properly, but my hope is harvesters won't understand it.
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