Safety of Posting Team Emails on Website

[Chris2]

We have a contact us form on our website and it asks, "Are you human?" and spambots still seem to be able to get past it.

[Knippschild]

Our system pulls the email address from the database, then removed the @ and replaces it with AT and replaces all '.' with DOT. Kind of basic but slightly, deters spam..

but:

Originally Posted by artdutra04

You could also just use CSS's direction property and reverse the direction of the letters, such as your source code might look like this:

Wow, I never thought about that. I'm going to integrate it into our system, but I'll use it along with our basic obfusicating, too

Originally Posted by Chris2

We have a contact us form on our website and it asks, "Are you human?" and spambots still seem to be able to get past it.

Try randomizing the question and position of the field. Also, try creating a CAPTCHA image generator.

[Rhia]

we use a contact form powered by another site that deals with the filtering for us... robotics.brearley.org -> contact us, and the link is at the bottom

[Mazin]

Use a "Contact us" form that they fill out on the website. This way the form mails the email, and the user will never know.

Or, for a less secure implementation, try this obfuscator: http://www.aztekera.com/tools/obfuscate.php.
It converts letters to their HTML hexadecimal equivalents.

The advantages of this method is that everything functions as normal: Users can still click the mailto: link and/or copy and paste the email address.

Disadvantages: hasn't been thoroughly tested in the real world. Sloppy spambots will miss it, but I don't know how sophisticated spambots usually are.