Prevent Email Spam
When you leave your email id displayed in the WebPages or blogs it is possible that you may get attacked by spam. Lot of money is spent for fighting spam in USA alone. Hence, it would be better to prevent the occurrence of spam.
So what will you do when you want to write your email id in your blog / site? Here is a way. Go to Email address encoder page and type your email address in the “Regular E-mail Address” box. Click the “ENCODE” button. You will get a list of junk characters in the bigger box. It is your email address in the encoded format. Copy it and save it in a notepad file say “encoded-email.txt”. Now wherever you want to display your email id type
<a href=”mailto:abc@gmail.com”>Contact Me</a>
Instead of abc@gmail.com paste the encoded text (junk characters). Thus your email address is not available in the source code but it works like a normal email id. It will look like this.
But some spam bots may find out the email displayed. So a better option would be to simply write like this.
abc [AT] gmail [DOT] com
This is the safest method.
Another idea would be to place an image instead of writing the email id through text.
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http://email.playtime.uni.cc/
http://services.nexodyne.com/email/
You may also try Spamgourmet, Natata Anti-Spam Encoder or SafeMailto Encoder to protect your email address from getting spammed.
Link of the day: GWB pictures.
