Just how safe is your email on the net?

Here’s a simple script to help protect your email address from spam-bots. How it work is that the bots that scour the internet looking for your email address lift text off the page and extract an email address… What this does is convert your email address to an image, something that is hard for spam-bots to read, one of the few approved methods for sharing email with less spam. I will also list alternatives after the break…

I do believe in this method, so much so I will put my email address here!

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Alternate methods will follow after the break…

In addition to my solution, there are other solutions… some more elegant, some more complex! Here is a selection!

• http://scr.im/ – Protects your email by providing a URL where your address is held, presenting a humanity test before you can view it.
• http://services.nexodyne.com/email/index.php – Creates a pretty email ‘icon’. The GMail one is very popular in design.
• http://www.killersites.com/webDesignersHandbook/emailObscucator.htm – Obscures the email link by writing it in HTML special characters.
• http://joemaller.com/js-mailer.shtml – Use Javascript to form the email address on the page, spam-bots rarely have javascript enabled so cannot read it!