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We've got a contact section our site listing out names and phone numbers along with email addresses. I'm wondering what's the best way to combat spam bots from copying these addresses down? Should I use something like:

firstname.lastname [at] whatever.com

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You could place the email address inside a script but if you are like me (lazy) just add an image that states the email address.

How about a contact form?
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I used to use a simple php script to handle it ie. on the page you had user => script which converts to user@domain

It stopped a lot of the junk
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You could place the email address inside a script but if you are like me (lazy) just add an image that states the email address.

How about a contact form?
Images aren't really an option because of usability.

On the contact form, not too sure how I'd make that work inside our existing CMS. Will look into it.

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I used to use a simple php script to handle it ie. on the page you had user => script which converts to user@domain

It stopped a lot of the junk
How does that work? The script is parsed and the email is shown normally anyway?
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Instead of a mailto link you use a href one... The script does the conversion for you
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Oh right, I see what ya mean.
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Something like this should do it:

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email: <a title="info" rel="domain.ie" href="mailto:info[at symbol]domain.ie" onclick="this.href='mailto:'+this.getAttribute('title')+'@'+this.getAttribute('rel')"><span>Send Us an Email</span></a
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You could place the email address inside a script...
here's one I found a few years back and have been using it eversince. Can't remember where I got it but no doubt on some helpful tutorial site

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--
var username = "name";
var hostname = "domain.xx";
var linktext = username + "@" + hostname;
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + username +
"@" + hostname + ">" + linktext + "</a>")
//-->
</script>


Probably similar to ideas already mentioned above but it's a nice little script I think.
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