<p>I am sure that none of you like spam... Thus I have to offer some advice: never put your email address as it is. For example "<a href="mailto:asdf@asdf.com">asdf@asdf.com</a>" should be written as "asdf at asdf dot com". That way, web crawlers won't collect your email address for spamming purposes. Web crawlers are programs that search web pages for specific information, in this case, email addresses. (google is also an example of a web crawler)</p>
<p>btw, the term might be web spiders, not sure =)</p>