Everybody (well, not everybody, but
Everybody (well, not everybody, but most of us that play on the web for a living) understands that one of the spammers favorite sources of email is…you guessed it…web pages. They have scads of little "spambots" that crawl webpages looking for anything that might be an email address. When they find it, they dutifully pass it on to the spammers, and the onslaught begins. Here's a solution (if you're really militant about it) that will wrap your mailto link in JavaScript AND encode your email address in a way that makes it nearly impossible for the spambots to identify it as an email address. Dan Benjamin wrote a great article about this on A List Apart…you can read it here.
