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Hiveware Enkoder 3.0 - Email Address Encoding Tool

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The Bottom Line

Hiveware Enkoder employs a smart and effective (and quite complicated) method to encode email addresses in mailto: tags in a way that hides them from spammers.
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Pros
  • Hiveware Enkoder encodes email addresses cleverly
  • You can set a default Subject line with Hiveware Enkoder or encode your own HTML code
  • Hiveware Enkoder uses a random key to obscure email addresses
Cons
  • Hiveware Enkoder's standard mode could support more mailto: fields

Description

  • Hiveware Enkoder obscures email addresses to hide them from email address harvesting robots.
  • Hiveware Enkoder users JavaScript and an encrypted array in conjunction with a genetic algorithm.
  • Support for a default Subject: line, link text and hover text.
  • Using a free-form field, you can also encode any HTML using Hiveware Enkoder.
  • Hiveware Enkoder can produce HTML 4 or XHTML 1.0 compliant code.
  • Hiveware Enkoder supports Mac OS X 10.2.

Guide Review - Hiveware Enkoder 3.0 - Email Address Encoding Tool

If you use your email address anywhere on the web, chances are spammers will get it. The chance is particularly big if you put your address in a mailto: tag. If you use Hiveware Enkoder, however, you can reduce the risk of your address being harvested to near zero.

Hiveware Enkoder is easy to use but employs smart (and reasonably complicated) encoding using JavaScript in the background. Site visitors using a browser will be able to use the email address to contact you, but it should be safe from spammers.

Unfortunately, Hiveware Enkoder only supports a default Subject: field, no Cc: and no default body in its "standard" mode. The advanced mode allows you to encode any HTML — your very own mailto: tag using any available fields, tags and formatting —, though.
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