Publishing email address on site without it getting spammed to death

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Anyone know a reliable way to publish a contact email on a website but at the same time avoid email spam? (Aside from using a contact form of course?
 
Publishing as a Image, there was a plugin that did exactly this, the emails were converted to a image and after you clicked twice on them they became text that you could copy. Or do what YouTube does and use captcha
 
base64 the email and ask users to decode it?
[email protected] can be encoded into :
Y29udGFjdEBibGFja2hhdHdvcmxkLmNvbQ==

You can even have more fun if you want to like.
Y2(10 - 1)udGFjdEBibGFja(1+1)hhdHdvcmxkLmNvbQ==

:p
 
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Encoding it with Javascript is the simplest option which will prevent the majority of scrapers.
 
Thanks for the ideas, much appreciated. Done a little research based on the replies, and I found this plugin which sounds like it provides a combination of the things you all suggested - https://encoder.till.im/
And a plugin is always good seeing as it takes the work out of it for me.
I am going to try this plugin, combined with cleantalk.org antispam (Which is working very well for contact form spam) and hopefully that will make for a decent all-in-one solution.
 
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