In the wonderful world of spam, there are programs that surf the web looking for email addresses. (so I've been told. Can't say I've met one yet)

When looking round blogs, I seen a few tricks by people to protect their inbox from spam with tricks like this:

- someone [at] somewhere [dot] com

- someone [you know what goes here] somewhere.com

- Have a form (with or with out captcha) to send the email, thus not showing the address in plain text at all

One attempt that I saw, that I liked was this:

- djohnsmarie@gmail.com

Now, you're seeing my email right?

If you did a view source, you would see this:

While that doesn't look like an email, the visitors to my site will see me email. This is the HTML coded version of an ASCII character.

The question I have is: Does that actually fool a Find-and-record-emails-Spam-bot?

While I'd like to *think* it does, does anyone *know* if my attempt at protecting my email inbox will work, or if that attempt is futile?

(Even if it doesn't, at worst I'll be giving GMail's spam filtering a bit more of a work out!)

In case you are interested, the CF Code to generate that is (taken from my CFEclipse ScribblePad):