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Your email address as an image.

February 1st, 2010 Kip Leave a comment Go to comments

Afraid of putting your email address into a forum post or thread incase a spam spider gets it?

Nowadays, it’s inevitable that if you use your email address in plain text on a website / forum, that it will get spidered and spam will start coming to you. To me this doesn’t cause me any issues (and I will explain why in an upcoming spam article). for many, this may be a problem and therefore would be nice to avoid.

I recently came across a site that has a reasonable solution for you. You provide it with your email address, and it converts it into a picture that you can save, html or BB code link to.

Here is an example: . This is a very quick one I did to use as a test, but the site has options on font size, colour, background etc etc. With this, unless someone is using a highly efficient character recognition piece of software (which lets face it, they deserve your email address if they are),  your email address will be safe from auto scanning spider bots.

Very Cool tool in the fight against spam.

Check out the link here:

http://img4me.com/

Evilmunky out

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