I think its fairly common practice these days not to include a mailto: tag in your webpage. I also realize that a better solution is to have a contact us form.
Recently I've seen some mailto tags that include and html encoded email address. Is this an affective way to stop spammers from attacking an email address?
example:
<a href="mailto:newbi...">email me</a>
Also, are there any other techniques that I've left out? Which is the best method?