I have three or four small web-sites on matters of little interest. However, the thorny problem of how to put your email address on a site without it being "harvested" by spammer's web-bots was something I never considered. And of course, I am paying the price. Now I've discovered a javascript solution that is fiendishly simple. Well, to my simple brain it is. Have a look at
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/spamproof-site
I expect I'm preaching to the converted.