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If your goal is to prevent spammers and email harvesters from detecting and using your email address to send unwanted mail to you, then using a mailto link is not recommended.

There are various ways to reduce the chances that your email address will be used to send spam and other unwanted mail to you.

Use HTML character codes:

Original mailto link

mailto:johnsmith@wikianswers.com

Mailto link using HTML character coding

mailto:johnsmith@wikianswers.com

: = colon

@ = @

. = .

You can also write the mailto link replacing all of your text with its HTML character code equivalent making it more difficult (but not impossible) for email harvesters to read.

For example, the HTML character code equivalent for the word mailto would be,

MAILTO

Disposable e-mail addresses:

There are many services on the internet that provide disposable or temporary e-mail addresses which allows you to use multiple email addresses that forwards to your real email address and that can be deleted or left to expire if you are getting unwanted mail through a disposable email address.

Address munging:

Another way is to simply alter the presentation of an email address that is displayed in plain text such as the following examples.

johnsmith at wikianswers dot com

johnsmith-at-wikianswers-dot-com

johnsmith@wikianswers.com.nospam

Using images to display your email address is not recommended because it presents accessibility issues for users with screen readers and text only Web Browsers.

For website developers, there are many scripts available on the Internet that use JavaScript for email cloaking that provides an effective method for preventing spam.

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To hide you email address, do not share it publicly. The other way of hiding an email address is setting your privacy to you alone.

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