On the couple of web sites that I run I have the contact as webmaster which is a common enough address that it could probably be guessed and I do get some spam on it. However that address and any other "real" email address that I am forced to put on a web page I encode in a way that, so far, does not seem to be picked up by spammers:Guess what? They all received spam.
Yeah, I suspected they'd figured this out out by now.
Granted, not as much as an address in plain text on the same page, but close enough to prove to me that it wasn't worth the effort.
Really, it was an exercise in making my e-mail address a sitewide function
so that I can change it if I need in one go. If I start getting spam, I can
switch the address to point to the contact page or some such.
I use in-line Javascript to dynamically build the mailto: link and contents. Thus there is no email address string in the HTML itself. It only exists after the page is rendered. I know that spammers could modify their code to execute the Javascript and take the resulting HTML and scan it. But so far I don't have evidence that they do so.
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