Question(s) about E-mail Addresses on Websites

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I am thinking of putting up a webpage for a non-profit group I belong to. My HTML skills are quite limited. The page will be really simple, no frills.

My question is: I've heard that I should not put a "regular" e-mail address on a website, because all sorts of spammers and scammers have programs that scour the internet and harvest any e-mail addresses that are found. How true is this? How big a danger does this represent?

If it represents a significant danger, what is prudent to do instead? I lack the skills to put up one of those "contact" box thingies. I was just thinking of setting up a Gmail address that would forward e-mails to the real e-mail address of the woman who would be handling the e-mail for the organization. I'd let the tools in the Gmail account help cope with the spam and such, and in a worst case scenario just abandon the Gmail account if it gets overwhelmed by spam.

But is there a better way to go about this?

Tell me what you think, please.
 
I have two webpages. When I first set the original one up I wrote my email address as a clickable link and was spammed beyond belief. Next time I updated the site I simply wrote it contactme @ thisemail.com etc and still got a fair bit of spam. Now I have it written one one of my sites like this contactme(at)thisemail(dot)com and dont get as much spam. The other one I uploaded my details as a jpeg image so i could use a non standard font and havent had any spam at all (yet)
 
I was going to suggest a jpeg.
Like this:
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I think it wouldn't be too hard for spammers to program to detect [at], and [dot]....Don't know if they have bothered yet.
 
Im not big on HTML and stuff so I cant really say. But the jpeg thing would work. Although unsure if it would put people real people off contacting if it wasnt something that they can just click etc
 
Alice-Bee said:
I have two webpages. When I first set the original one up I wrote my email address as a clickable link and was spammed beyond belief. Next time I updated the site I simply wrote it contactme @ thisemail.com etc and still got a fair bit of spam. Now I have it written one one of my sites like this contactme(at)thisemail(dot)com and dont get as much spam. The other one I uploaded my details as a jpeg image so i could use a non standard font and havent had any spam at all (yet)
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Thanks, Alice-Bee. These are excellent points. I particularly like the JPEG idea, and I would combine it with the contactme(at)thisemail(dot)com format.
 
Blobbenstein said:
I was going to suggest a jpeg.
Like this:
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I think it wouldn't be too hard for spammers to program to detect [at], and [dot]....Don't know if they have bothered yet.
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I would actually probably use a GIF, simply because I have an old freeware utility called Text-to-Gif that does a good job in making these sorts of things.
Until I read Alice-Bee's post and was reminded of it.
 
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