Spam bots & e-mail links

Question

Hi,
if I add an unprotected e-mail address to my pages, it's a real gift for spam bots.
Is a "masked" address safer? I mean, +"My Name"+ with "[email protected]" added as invisible URL? Will this masked address be found by spam bots, too?
And is the only solution to shredder the mail address to +"my.e.mail (at) me.com"+ ?

Answer 1

I've done it by using the HTML font code to change the font and color. It's a hit or miss thing. This demo page shows a snippet that I've applied it to:
The code is as follows as displayed here: 2 ways to encode an email address
<xmp>
<a id='contactMe'><font color="#0033FF" size="3" face="Georgia">Email Me</font></a>
<script type='text/javascript'>
Assemble Obfuscated email address and set div id='contactMe' href
ObsArray = new Array();
ObsArray.push('mai');
ObsArray.push('lto');
ObsArray.push(':');
ObsArray.push('my'); // your break up email address starts here
ObsArray.push('name');
ObsArray.push('@');
ObsArray.push('me');
ObsArray.push('.');
ObsArray.push('com'); // your break up email address ends here
function setContactMe() {
var ObfuscatedHref = '';
for (ii=0; ii<ObsArray.length; ii++) {
ObfuscatedHref += ObsArray[ii];
document.getElementById('contactMe').href=ObfuscatedHref;
chkEmail = setInterval('checkEmail()', 100);
function checkEmail() {
if (document.getElementById('contactMe') != null) {
clearInterval(chkEmail);
}}</script>
</xmp>
*(Ignore the <xmp></xmp> tags when using)*
See the code around the Email Me at the top? That's how to change the font, size and color. You can apply that to the test in a snippet. It would look like this: Email Me
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