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One issue that I thought of is how to display the contact emails. Wanted to figure out a good way to do that without making any displayed email addresses visible to spam bots. Little did I know that this endeavor would cost me way too many hours of research and testing...

Bottom line so far? Not much to show for my efforts. Yet...

A couple of extensions, both of which look buggy:

Extension:EmailAddressImage
Extension:Emailtag

Example using Obfuscate Email Address on Web Page:

portlandwiki@gmail.com
Unfortunately, looks like the address is visible in view source.

Example using an image generator:

This guy claims his test shows that CSS or Javascript obfuscation works well:

Nine ways to obfuscate e-mail addresses compared

Some folks advise us to not even try to obfuscate our email addresses.

External Links

How to Write and Publish a Press Release