Cloak e-mail addresses on your web site.

$9.95

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The need

You want to put your e-mail address on your web site. This may be for a simple "Contact" link or for customer support or a way for people to request information via auto responder. These allow your visitors to click a simple mailto link and get your promotional materials or articles in their e-mail inbox.

The problem

Directly including your e-mail addresses on your web page allows evil spam harvesters to collect any e-mail address that may be on that page by using SpamBots.  These are programs created by scum and run by ignorant or unethical fools. What they do is search through the Internet, looking at web sites and pages for e-mail addresses to add to those million e-mail address collections that you see advertised (mostly in spam) all over the place.

The solution

Encode your e-mail addresses in something called Unicode. This is a "language" for encoding special characters on web pages. All modern browsers support Unicode as its primary intention is to allow languages all over the planet to be represented. This confuses the evil SpamBots and they pass if by.  For example, the following e-mail address:

webmaster@cloak.com

will be shown in Unicode as:

webmaster @cloak.co&#1 09

Cloak

Cloak will do the encoding for you and allow you to easily copy and paste into your web pages. Unlike other methods it will also keep your addresses on file for easy future use