Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Hiding your email address from SpamBots

Stemming the flow of spam is a bit like King Cnut (AKA Canute) ordering the advancing tide to return.
However, one of the main sources of email addresses must be from web pages. The Address Harvesters or SpamBots, crawl the net just as the search engines do. However, they only look for email addresses.
The SpamBots know that if an email address appears on a website then it's almost 100% likely to be a valid, active address.
So I've just created emailMangler to hide addresses on my websites from passing SpamBots.
I'll be putting emailMangler on my website as a free download.
Within the next day or two, you should be able to get it from here.

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