The Bottom Line
Safe E-Mail Links Scout is a swiftly used tool that encodes your email address in mailto: links to protect it from being harvested by spammers. Some more complicated enciphering and support for default mailto: subject and body would be nice, though.
Safe E-Mail Links Scout is no longer available.
Safe E-Mail Links Scout is no longer available.
Pros
- Safe E-Mail Links Scout is easy and swift to use
- Protects your email address from being collected by spambots
- Safe E-Mail Links Scout lets you include a fake email address
Cons
- Safe E-Mail Links Scout doesn't offer hex encoding or more complex scripting
- You can't specify a default subject or body in the mailto link
Description
- Safe E-Mail Links Scout protects your email address from being picked up by spammers.
- Using JavaScript, Safe E-Mail Links Scout constructs an enciphered mailto: link.
- Safe E-Mail Links Scout lets you include a fake email address in plain text.
- Safe E-Mail Links Scout supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - Safe E-Mail Links Scout 1.0 - Email Address Encoding Tool
If you put your email address on a web site, you also put it at risk. Spammers employ dedicated robots to mine the net for email addresses. Fortunately, these programs are often not very sophisticated and you can protect your address by encoding it.
Safe E-Mail Links Scout is a small and easy to use tool that uses JavaScript to encode your email address in a mailto: link. While the enciphering could be more complex, for the time being it is probably enough to fool the spammers. Safe E-Mail Links Scout lets you even include a fake address for the harvesting robots to pick up.
What you cannot specify, unfortunately, is a default subject or body for the mailto: link.
