obfuscation - 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:

[email protected]

or use a clever trick to try and fool the email address harvester bots? For example:

HTML Escape Characters:

joe.somebody@company.com

Javascript Decrypter:

function XOR_Crypt(EmailAddress)
{
    Result = new String();
    for (var i = 0; i < EmailAddress.length; i++)
    {
        Result += String.fromCharCode(EmailAddress.charCodeAt(i) ^ 128);
    }
    document.write(Result);
}

XOR_Crypt("ê???ó?í?a??ùà??íeá?ù???í");

Human Decode:

[email protected]

joe.somebody AT company.com

What do you use or do you even bother?

Answer 1

I generally don't bother. I used to be on a mailing list that got several thousand spams every day. Our spam filter (spamassassin) let maybe 1 or 2 a day through. With filters this good, why make it difficult for legitimate people to contact you?