Since the California law that goes into effect on January 1, 2004 won’t slow down the international spammers, I was glad to find another low-tech way to slow the harvesting of email addresses. Vin Crosbie pointed out this handy tip for encoding an email address in a way that web browsers will work, but the HTML source will not give away the address. Of course, this is just another Red Queen step… run faster and faster just to stay in place. But we have to try.