How to securely display an e-mail address on a website ?

[swishsticks]

I am helping a charity which suffers a lot from spam and virus e-mails. They have a website on which their e-mail address is openly displayed. I guess this address has been visited by automatic e-mail harvester programs because they receive up to 300 spam and virus mails per day.

I'm not at all technical with websites, so I'm looking for a very simple solution. Would it be more secure to put this on the website, for example:

"abc500@provider.uk (Remove 500 from the e-mail address)"

In other words, put an incorrect address on the website, but with an accompanying instruction which a human could read and interpret. Or in some other way to break up the address, like this:

"abc at provider.uk (replace 'at' with '@' to send a message. Leave no spaces.)"

Any basic advice much appreciated. I'm afraid that any technical advice about java script or the like will go straight over my head ...

Thanks.

Swish

 

[Nodsu]

The first version would not be that good since the spam would still get sent to the fake address putting a load on the provider.uk mailserver or some poor sod who actually has this fake address.

Another solution would be to put up a picture of the address.

 

[StormBringer]

I've always liked using something like stormbringer "at" mailserver "dot" com, but Nodsu's idea of the image is also good since bots can't parse an image.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

A much cleaner solution would be to stick that email-address in a javascript file.

At the location in the html-page where you want to display the address and/or email, insert the following line:
<script language="JavaScript" src="contact.js"></script>

The file "contact.js" looks like this:

<!-- Begin
<!-- NOTE: If you use a ' add a slash before it like this \' -->

document.write('Your Name or Company<br>');
document.write('10901 Your Road Hwy. Suite 301<br>');
document.write('Chicago, IL 60060<br>');
document.write('PHONE: (312) 555-5060<BR>');
document.write('FAX: &nbsp;&nbsp;(312) 555-5050<BR>');
document.write('<BR>E-mail us: ');
document.write('<A HREF="mailto:info@yourdomain.com">info@yourdomain.com</a><br>');
// End -->

In it's most simple form the file would look like:
<!-- Begin
document.write(' E-mail us: <A HREF="mailto:info@yourdomain.com">info@yourdomain.com</a>');
// End -->

The <br> is a carriage return or "new line"