The Bottom Line
ASS Maker protects your email address from being collected by spammers at your web site by encoding it in JavaScript.
Pros
- ASS Maker offers protection from email harvesting robots
- Easy to use, ASS Maker is a quick fix
- ASS Maker lets you specify default Subject, Cc, and body
Cons
- Spammers may adapt to ASS Maker's cloaking
- ASS Maker does not offer hex encoding
Description
- ASS Maker protects your email address from being collected by harvesting robots.
- Works by encoding mailto links in JavaScript.
- Can add default Subject and Cc headers and a default message body.
- ASS Maker supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - ASS Maker 3.1 - Email Address Encoding Tool
As soon as you put your email address in a mailto: link on your Web site, spammers will grab it and grace you with their unsolicited offerings.
One way to avoid this is not to include your email address, but this makes it more difficult to contact you. A way to both make it convenient for you visitors to email you and still protect your address from spammers is provided by ASS Maker.
Tell ASS Maker your address and optionally a default Subject, Cc: header or message body, and ASS Maker constructs some JavaScript code. This code is interpreted by browsers like a plain mailto: link, but to harvesting robots it will not at all resemble an email address, so they'll leave it (and you, consequently) alone — until the spambots recognize these links.
