Display your email address as an image

A graphical representation of your email address allows your visitors to email you as well as foil those pesky harvesting programs! Ensure that you don't make the graphic a clickable mailto link. Those of you really paranoid may want to ensure that the text in the graphic can't be read by Optical Character Recognition (OCR)! This forces your visitor to type your email address, but that in itself is no great hardship.

Display your email address as a Flash animation

If you've the means and the ability to create such a thing then this can provide your visitors with a visible email address that remains clickable.

Display your email address so that only a human reader will understand

Instead of showing your email address as yourname@yourdomain.com try a variation e.g. yourname AT yourdomain DOT com.

Use a contact form.

A contact form allows a visitor to your website to send you an email directly from one of your webpages. This means no extra typing for the visitor, which in turn means it's not possible for them to type your email address incorrectly. If the script that you use to process the form can handle errors correctly then it can present your email address using an alternative method should it fail when trying to process the form. In order to make use of a contact form you'll need to be able to run cer

tain types of scripts on your web server. Contact your host to see if this is possible if you're not sure.

Be weary of who you give your email address to

One of the methods used by spammers to confirm live addresses is to include a link to an unsubscribe facility, perhaps on their website. DO NOT USE THIS! It's almost certain that it's existence is simply to confirm that an email address is actually in use and is a worthwhile target for more spam.

Use a free webmail account if you must give out an email addresses

If you have a main email address, perhaps one that is associated with your ISP account, then this is probably the one that you'll want to protect the most as it's probably going to be the hardest one to abandon should it become unusable. If you have to supply your email address to someone you don't fully trust to keep it secure then you should consider signing up for a free webmail account. There are plenty to choose from and you don't have to go for the major brands. By avoiding the big players you will effectively be moving out of the firing line of some spammers as they'll tend to aim their dictionary attacks at the email providers with the most subscribers.