Sriram N. A. wrote: > E-mail search engines CAN NOT extract your address in this form. Don't believe it! Your browser recognises character codes, form scripts can recognise them (try it with AnyForm) -- and Spam Robots can also recognise them, because that is their job. Put yourself in the place of the spambot programmer: it's your living, it's a competitive business, and you know all the tricks. The only way to fool ALL spam robots is to mangle the email address, eg: posting on 25 July "Email addresses on your web page". To get back on topic ... Forms are the webmaster's best friend. You NEED them. If you use the mailto method, you are exposing yourself to spammers -- but that is your problem. Some of your visitors can't use the form -- and that is also your problem because your page does not work. So as a free web space user, you depend either on local scripts (InternetTrash doesn't have any) or remotely-hosted scripts (many choices). But as an email-only free web space user, you don't have so many choices. In practice, you are limited to scripts which require your email address as part of the form data. Be clear about the risk of spam (it is inconvenient, but not fatal) and focus on how your visitors experience your site.