Hi G.,
Why not *only* change the "@" and "." characters? While my normal mail address would be recognized by robotic address suckers, but
   Â
vanhorn[at]whidbey[dot]com
would not be harvested by the robots and would still be recognizable to most human readers.
It will be recognizable to most, but not all human readers.
Some people recommend to not use mailto: arguments at
all in situations where you want mail clients to be fired up but instead use something like a little script or redirects to mail form pages or or or...
It's somewhat useless to try to think like a spam spider but when I had to code one I would certainly try to integrate the "tricks" above 😊
