Hiding Your Email Address from Spambots

Ted Vaden, the Public Editor of the News & Observer, blogged last week about a Do-Not-Deliver registry for (junk) phone books akin to the Do-Not-Call registry for Spam Phone Calls.

How about junk email? The Washington Post estimated in 2003 that junk email cost U.S. businesses over $10 billion in wasted time, server space and bandwidth.

For every business that has a website, this problem is particularly acute. You want to post your email address so people can contact you. But if you do, the spambots will find you, harvest the address and sell it to data miners. You can expect an ever-increasing flow of junk to the listed email address.

We’ve just released a short, downloadable QA Tip “How to Hide your Email Address from Spambots” as it relates to business and personal websites.

Hiding your email address from spambots is quick, easy and doesn’t require any advanced web skills. Viewers won’t notice any difference - they’ll be able to see your address and contact you freely. But you’ll be invisible to the data harvesters.

We’ve also included a link to Enigma’s Email Obfuscator, a free tool that can help you baffle the ‘bots.

Now if only we could figure out what to do with those phone books.

Download the whitepaper:
How to hide your Email Address from Spambots