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Obfuscating Email Addresses

One way that spammers find email addresses is to send to is by extracting them from the mailto: links in web pages. They crawl though every page on a web site, looking for things that resemble email addresses.

In the majority of cases, spammers can be fooled into ignoring such links by encoding them differently. This form below will generate code to do this, while at the same time still allowing the viewers of your page to send you email by clicking on the link.

To begin, complete these fields and click on Generate Code:

Email address: 
Long Name: 

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