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Mask Your Email Address

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It is quite a habit of web users like us to post our full email addresses on communities and forums, on social networks, blogs and websites. In the long run, you become the target of mail spams. These spammers send loads of junk mail to your Inbox.

Heres a list of ways to mask your email address.
Hiding your email address by spelling it out. This is an effective but comon way and is widely used in public spaces like forums or comments sections. Using forms on the website. This proves to be the most popular and effective way for your guests to contact you.
Creating an image with your email address, posting it any place you want.
Use a disposable email address rather than giving out your work email address.
Using Javascript and CSS as a method to hide the email address.

These may not be fool proof but it offers you better ways to avoid annoying and often destructive mail spammers.


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