hiddenMail.org - Email Address Encoding Tool

hiddenMail.org protects your email address from being collected by spammers by making it available only after prospective contacts have proved they're human. This slight inconvenience is also hiddenMail.org's downside.
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In a spammer collects every email address world, what can you do? Get an email address that is long and complicated enough to be inefficient to guess and guard it like your credit card. Do not display it in any place — a web site, a forum, a newsgroup — where it can be seen and collected by anybody. In fact, don't display it anywhere.

Display the image of your address obtained from hiddenMail.org instead, and let hiddenMail.org guard the address behind it. If people want to mail you (and, of course, you want people to mail you), they follow a link to a special page at hiddenMail.org that displays a captcha. A captcha is a test that, supposedly, humans can solve easily in seconds while computers (like those behind the address collecting robots used by spammers) struggle (if they recognize the test at all).

In response to successful proof of humanity, hiddenMail.org shows the original email address, ready to be clicked upon and sent mail to. Of course, it is precisely this somewhat arduous process that can be a drawback to hiddenMail.org.

If you want to make sure nobody is held back from mailing you by inconvenience, hiddenMail.org is not for you, even though the captcha can be disabled. You might also want to consider using a text link (don't use your email address...) instead of the email image to prevent spambots from extracting your address from the image; just to be real sure.