An often endless battle for us is the battle against SPAM. We spend a great deal of effort and resources fighting spammers and educating our users on various tools and techniques used in the war. One common method for spammers to add new email addresses is the use of special software known as mail "harvesting bots" or "harvesters", which spider web pages to obtain e-mail addresses. If your web site contains an email address that is readable by a machine in the form of <username> at <domain> then your mail address is easily picked up by email harvest software. This includes email addreses that may be embedded in hidden fields in your forms.

One such method of fixing this problem is to obfuscate your email address and "mailto:" tag with encoded HTML characters. For example, this address, support@ihwy.com, works like you would expect a normal email address to work but is actually obfuscated and hidden SPAM Harvesters.

You can access this tool by going to: http://www.ihwy.com/Tools/Email-Obfuscation-Tool.aspx