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Protect your Email Address
Spammers use a number of methods to collect email addresses off the Web. One
common method is to use "harvesting software" to extract email addresses
from websites. These types of software spider the Internet for the sole
purpose of finding and collecting email addresses.
The simplest solution to prevent your email address from being harvested
from your website is to remove all email addresses from all of your web
pages. This is the most extreme solution, but if you need to get your
visitors to send you information, then use a form (these cannot be harvested
by spammers as long as the email address is not part of the form itself -
the Bravenet email form service is ideal for this purpose). If you don't put
your email addresses directly on your site, then the spammers cannot get it
using their harvesters.
If you still want to have your email address on your website, you can use a
javascript like this to break up the address in to small pieces that are
assembled again in your visitor's browser. While this isn't a guaranteed
fool-proof method, it is an effective one in most cases.
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