The Bottom Line
Em@ilEncoder is easy to use, and it encodes your email address for use on a Web site while hiding it from spammers. Em@ilEncoder is no longer available.
Pros
- Em@ilEncoder obfuscates email addresses
- Uses hex encoding and JavaScript
- Supports default Subject: line
Cons
- Em@ilEncoder could use more complicated JavaScript
- Support for Cc: and body missing
- Spammers may adapt
Description
- Em@ilEncoder obscures your email address to hide it from the spammers' harvesting robots.
- Addresses are encoded using JavaScript and hex encoding.
- Em@ilEncoder can construct mailto: links including a default Subject.
- Em@ilEncoder supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - Em@ilEncoder 2.0 - Email Address Encoding Tool
Everybody tells you not to give away your email address, but how do you avoid mentioning it on your Web site if you want to be contacted by email? You can obscure it by inserting some random text, but this can be annoying. The path Em@ilEncoder takes is to obscure the address mechanically.
Em@ilEncoder will hide your email address behind some simple JavaScript code and encoded in hexadecimal notation. This makes your address unidentifiable for human readers and for the spammers harvesting robots, but most web browsers can decode Em@ilEncoder's output and can use the address as if it was written in plain.
Although Em@ilEncoder could employ some more complicated JavaScript, it works pretty well (so long as spammers don't adapt).
