Publishing an email address - but not to spammers

[ffutures]

Since my email address will be changing soon, I'm going to have to put the new contact details on my web site (which reminds me I need to change my address with the hosting company, nominet, nominet UK, etc.)

I want to make it as difficult as possible for spammers to use automated spiders to grab my email address from the site - I think last time I put in some tabs between letters and otherwise obfuscated things.

Any suggestions on ways of doing this?

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

A lot of 'bots can use contact forms (indeed any sort of HTML form is easy to program a 'bot' to hit send buttons). Of course, you can then load it using JS and have CAPTCHAs, but that then pisses off the users.

Like with a lot of other 'security' it doesn't stop the maldoers but does piss off the honest users. As far as I can see the best way is to let the text be visible but not machine-readable, but using either a picture (which is unfriendly to poor-sighted people) or to have things like keristor AT gmail DOT com.

Or not bother. The amount of spam which I can attribute to my website (which has the address in clear and links) is very small, almost all of it is based on usernames at my known domains (easy enough to get from DNS) which don't actually exist.