It was suggested in one of the threads that using name@mydomain.com instead of name@mydomain.com would prevent bots from gathering your email address as posted on a website. Does anyone know if that is really useful? It would seem one could easily design a bot to recognize that trick.

Hi, Dave --

I doubt it'll get past some smart spambots. Shawn from the Dreamweaver forums wrote a remarkable article about email address cloaking at:
http://reliableanswers.com/js/mailme.asp

You can see at the bottom, there's a little box for you to try out your anti-spam techniques. Unfortunately, the one you provided was pretty easily decoded.

Cheers!

On my websites, I use the web-based Automatic Enkoderform to do javascript encoding. http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform

Just cut and paste the results into your code.  No email that I have set up exclusively to use as web site email contact, and encoded this way, has ever gotten spam.  I've used it both to replace "mailto:" URLs directly on the page, and to obscure the email address in scripted email contact forms.

 The results of this encoding pass the reliableanswers.com email extracting test.

That is really cool!

And using <script type="text/javascript" src="myscript.js"></script> keeps your code nice and neat too.