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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

Web-Email-Cloaker - Your Email Address in a Thick Can

Thursday February 3, 2005
Web-Email-CloakerDid you know that the first tin (not thin) cans, appearing in the first half of the 19th century, could only be cracked open using a hammer? Only later, thinner cans lent themselves to the invention of easy to use can openers.
With Web-Email-Cloaker, you can think of your mailto: link as a very thick can. Now let's hope the normal visitors to your site all have hammers while spammers have just their bare hands:
Web-Email-Cloaker is a small download, and it quickly encodes your email address as used in mailto: links on web sites to prevent it from being collected by spammers. (Windows)

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