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Protect Your Email Address

Email spiders are searching our sites stealing our email addresses, there are several solutions here is a good one from a discussion at Jonathan Delacour's site on web accessibility. His suggestion for encoding your email address in unicode looks like a winner to me. You don't even have to do the encoding yourself fantomas mail shield will do it for you.

Update: The solution that wasn't. It seems protecting your email address is not so easy. Having said that here are some other possibilities from Phil and Ruzz



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Hivelogic's encoder yields even harder formats for spambots to crack: http://www.hivelogic.com/safeaddress/

From Monty Python's Flying Circus:

"I'll have your spam, dear, I love it."

Heck, I love my Internet spam mail. Some of it is so funny ("Teen sluts and GALLONS of spooge!! Kinky farm animals! Midget porn!") that checking my mail every day is a ritual to which I look forward.

That sounds like an invitation to forward my spam your way. You must really like spam spam spam spam...

I am about to stop using this email address which I have had for five years because I am now getting Mailer Daemon responses and Failed Delivery responses for emails I did not send..they are spam mails where all sorts of people have used my email address to spam

What can I do?

Help

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It's nothing personal to you -- that happens to everybody at some time. Spammers have always forged the return addresses on their messages. Now they're forging the addresses of recipients of the spam. I guess they're trying to get through some of the email filters. The result is that you get the bounces.

Your email address was compromised the first time a spammer got hold of it. (I don't recommend Yahoo mail because they do sell your email address to the mail senders -- it says so in their privacy policy.) I recommend http://fastmail.fm

Someone wants to sign in at my e-mail account, it's not easy of course, but it takes time to recover my account. Do you have any good methods to prevent it to happen again?

Help!!!

please protect my email

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I WANT TO PROTECT MY EMAIL ADDRESS FOR PORN MAILS

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