A client just queried:
I’ve had various people tell me not to put my email
address on my website (because of concerns about scripts harvesting email
addresses for spamming) — what do you reckon? (and if that is a
legitimate concern is there a way around it?)
I do put up my address and I deal with the spam. However, you could encode your e-mail address through the use of Character Entities, transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity.
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