How to stop spammers from getting the email address from a mailto link?

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• Best way to obfuscate an e-mail address on a website?
• Effective method to hide email from spam bots
• What are some ways to protect emails on websites from spambots?

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What is the best way to prevent spammers from getting the email address from your mailto links? I'm under the impression that javascript could be a solution. I don't know if my current solution is fool proof, so that's why I'm asking.

Here's what I'm currently doing:

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
var name = "emailusername";
var domain = "yahoo.com";
var text = "[email protected]";
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + name + '@' + domain + '\">');
document.write(text + '</a>');
// --></script>

Is there is a better way? I don't like having to have this chunk of code everywhere I want to put a mailto link.

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• Best way to obfuscate an e-mail address on a website?
• Effective method to hide email from spam bots
• What are some ways to protect emails on websites from spambots?