Howdy Jeff! Recently stumbled across something that might work for you, source code and all: <http://www.hivelogic.com/safeaddress.php> Nice little PHP function that will encode email address so that the bots won't recognize them. Outputs javascript tho, if that's a concern. Sean Oelkers <doktor at nokturnaldesign.com >One of the fields is e-mail address and that is displayed on each profile. >Now obviously I don't want members who signed up to be spammed. >I was wondering what people think the best way to avoid spam is: