HTML spammers

hi all,
I want some help in my project work, I am trying to get it on google,but not successful yet.
If u can get sumthing related....

I want to convert the characters in the email address to their HTML escaped values to prevent the automated harvesting run by spammers from harvesting them.
Can you plz help me out, If any of ur project had done the same thing earlier, Sothat we can reuse the same code.
thx & rgds,
radhika

radhika, JavaRanch is a community of people from all over the world, many of who are not native English speakers. While using abbreviations like "u" instead of spelling out "you" is convenient when text messaging your friends on a cell phone or in a chat room, it presents an extra challenge to those that are already struggling with English. Additionally, such shortcuts may confound automated translation tools that patrons of the Ranch may be making use of.

I would like to ask for your help in making the content of JavaRanch a little easier to read for everybody that visits here by not using such abbreviations.

Please read this for more information.

thanks,
bear
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