	Albion Research Ltd. Threat and Risk Analysis guiding Business Continuity	9 May 2008
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Email Address Obfuscator

Sadly there are a number of "spambots" which roam the web "harvesting" email addresses to send spam to. Often you have no choice but to include an email address in a web page. Fortunately most of these spambots do not seem to have complete HTML parsers.

This free Email Address Obfuscator uses obfuscation to generate a "mailto:" link which will confuse naïve spambots, but will still work in standard browsers.

Note that using JavaScript to construct and write the email address into the web page is not a good alternative, as JavaScript is not always switched on by the user.

Incidentally, the best reasonably-priced web hosting company I currently know of for filtering incoming spam is PowWeb.com. (Disclaimer — although I am a satisfied customer, I am also an affiliate.)

Other pages on this site you may find of interest:
• A note on Email Identity Theft.
• The URLEncode and URLDecode Page.
• Albion BookLink (Free) lets you make links point to your favorite bookstore.
• Take regular breaks is common RSI prevention/treatment advice. Albion StopNow! makes it easy.