Including live email addresses in web site

Are email addresses still be "harvested" by spammers ? If so, what's the best way to provide visitors with email addresses while still preventing their theft?
Thanks.
Pat

Are email addresses still be "harvested" by spammers ?
Of course they are.
If so, what's the best way to provide visitors with email addresses while still preventing their theft?
You could use an email obfuscator to hide addresses from bots.
http://www.google.com/search?q=email+obfuscator&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en- US:official&client=firefox-a
But the most reliable way for people to contact you is via a contact form that uses a form to email processing script with spam protection built in.  Some server hosts offer scripts you can use.  If not, and your server supports PHP, I highly recommend this one from DB Masters.
http://dbmasters.net/index.php?id=4
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