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Encrypting Your Email Address
Via a Wired story on protecting yourself from spam, I found Jim Tucek’s Email Protector, a Javascript that let’s you embed a mailto: link to your email address on your Web page without actually revealing the email address except to people who run the Javascript. The theory is that email address harvesters don’t run Javascript.
Posted by windley on August 9, 2007 2:13 PM
Comment from Ivan Begtin at August 9, 2007 2:50 PM
It helps, but not a complete solution. It doesn't help against spam methods based on dictionaries of names and surnames against specified domains.
Also smart email harvesters could execute javascript since they automate Firefox or IE for harvesting links. So probably better way is to hide email inside picture or show it only after user request and input captcha, to be sure that he/she is not email harvester.
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