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Hide your email address from spammers with The Enkoder
Many of us have been in this situation: you want to post your email address on your website so that people can read it, click a link, and get in touch with you. You're worried about displaying your email as a regular link, though, because bots will index it and start sending you spam. If you want to post your email address on a website so that it's readable by humans, but obfuscated from any bots trying to harvest it, take a look at The Enkoder.The Enkoder is a quick web form (and a Mac desktop app!) that takes your email address and the link text you want to use, and spits out some encrypted JavaScript that you can put on the web. It's provided free-of-charge by Dan Benjamin and HiveLogic.com. The Mac version runs straight from your machine and remembers previous encodings.
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Bryan Price said 2:49PM on 6-13-2008
I've used this for years. I remember running into it when it was on a different site. I needed it, and my bookmarked page went to a 404. I googled Enkoder, and found the latest and verstion at the new location.
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Richard said 7:47PM on 6-13-2008
Ah, this is brilliant: much more elegant than having an entire separate page with a contact form on it. Not that anybody ever wants to email me anyway.
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William Turner said 1:40PM on 6-26-2008
I need a link whereby i could download millions of email addresses from
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Jim said 10:19AM on 8-16-2008
Hi,
I am using
http://www.mobilefish.com/services/hideemail/hideemail.php to protect my email address against spam bots.
This site also contains other useful tools.
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