This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots
This error message seams to be popular again at the moment, so I guess its time to reeducate Joomla users and administrators on the cause of it:
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots
If you get this message, then you are probably using a third party extension (like bfForms) and you see this message as an error. The solution is very simple. Joomla has a built in (a very basic!) plugin that replaces any email address in Joomla output with a snazzy javascript hiding technique to hide email addresses from spam bots.
All you need to do to resolve the error – is to disable this Joomla Plugin.
PHP 5.3 Compatibility Statement
For the record: None of our applications are designed for, tested on, or validated to work with PHP 5.3.x at all.
PHP 5.3 depreciates certain functions that I know we use, as well as introducing new features which I know conflict at the moment with our code.
As soon as I get a chance I will refactor those parts of the code effected and re-release new versions.
Out products are designed for PHP 5.2.x (5.2.4 and above) which, in our experience, is the version most webhosts have installed as its the only major version of PHP that ships with the mainstream linux distributions (redhat/centos).
Update (7th Jan 2010):I have now succeeded in getting bfForms and bfFramework to function correctly on PHP 5.3.x, there were significant changes that had to be made – this was made a lot easier as the codebase is Unit tested. I’ll release a copy soon, as soon as its been to our testers and passed their approval. I’ll make a further announcement when this has been released.
Three.co.uk – mobile broadband – email sending issue
Just a note to all three.co.uk users using a mobile broadband dongle and having issues sending emails by SMTP…
The trick is to use THREE’s own SMTP server – but not just the normal one, the one specific to mobile broadband.
So if like me, you had issues sending emails through three, just change your outgoing smtp server to
smtp-mbb.three.co.uk
no authentication required – it just works 
Hope this helps some one, as Googling took me ages