obfuscate email link in mailto, protect from spammers, possible?

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:09:06 -0700
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Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: (e-mail address removed)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: (e-mail address removed)
Lines: 16
Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com alt.html:510826

I'm working on a page where the author insists on using mailto for now,
he will have me change it to a formmail later when he finds a permanent
home for the site.

I'm using an email obfuscator so spammers (search engines/robots?) don't
find his email address in the page, and I'm wondering if this approach
is good enough. The address (shortened) looks like this:

<a href="mailto:">
Click her</a>

Can the spammers decode this? If so, any suggestons about how I can make
it more difficult for them?

Any comments appreciated,
MIke
 

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