ok firgured out a pretty good way. If its your web page, and you want to display your email address, without the text being scraped by a bot for spam, then make every place where you'd put your email an img tag pointing to a .jpg of your email address. like->
that's not a bad idea. until spammers start OCR'ing for emails hahah
yeah, thats quite possible, but hopefully much more expensive for them. they'd have to download and scan all the images on a web-page, that would take a lot of time and resources. at the moment all they do is get the text of the page, which is much, much less bandwith, time, and computation to search for an email address
well, i already thought of that (except with flash), but i worried about d/l time. still thinkin' about it. (another issue is that the mailto: info would be in the source code, which could be scanned.)