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:

joe.somebody@company.com

or use a clever trick to try and fo

Answer 1

Try an Email Icon generator. http://services.nexodyne.com/email/

Ofcourse there are still some OCR bots which might get this..

Answer 2

Spam bots will have their own Javascript and CSS engines over time, so I think you shouldn't look in this direction.

Answer 3

Another, possibly unique, technique might be to use multiple images and a few plain-text letters to display the address. That might confuse the bots.

Answer 4

I don't bother. You'll only annoy sophisticated users and confuse unsophisticated users. As others have said, Gmail provides very effective spam filters for a personal/small business domain, and corporate filters are generally also very good.