mailShield™ — the utlimate stealth

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A simple and free trick to protect your web site efficiently from spam mail — now including camouflage of entire HTML pages.

The Problem

(rt) Spam artists' extractor bots can make life living hell for any webmaster: tirelessly hunting for deliverable email addresses, they have begun to comb through not only Usenet but any websites accessible to them.

Now you know as well as we do that even the flashiest web site is no good at all if your visitors and clients cannot contact you. So what you do is to put your email address dutifully on your web page — and off the spammers go again to pester you later with their junk mail. Not only is this a nuisance, it is also time consuming and in consequence damaging to your business.

Of course you can go a long way in avoiding this issue by employing email filters (“kill files”). However, such filters will have to be generated manually. Moreover they are notoriously unreliable because while you know the addresses of past and present spammers, you don't know who is yet to come. Hence, kill file filters can offer only a very limited protection against spamming.

While the trick outlined below does not present any ultimative solution either, even though it has been widely hyped as such in the U.S. internet media, it is currently still pretty useful, which is why we want to share it here.

The Solution

The procedure is quite simple: do not employ clear text for email addresses on your web site. Instead, convert the characters of your address (or even only a few of them) into browser readable Unicode. As per time of writing we are not aware of any address extractor bot capable of reverse-decoding in the Unicode standard.

The result being: your email address will be sorted out as “undeliverable” by the extractor program. Let it be noted that we expect this to change some time in the future when more powerful extractor programs will have been written. But until then, you may as well count your blessings for having warded off these virtual pests if only temporarily.

Let's take a practical example

The following email address is written entirely in Unicode, as you can see when checking the source code of this page. We even encoded the “mailto:” command!:

fantomaster@fantomaster.com

Provided your browser supports HTML 3.2 however, you should only see the clear text on your screen.

In reality, the address is encoded as follows:

fan
toma
ster
@fan
toma
ster
.com

You will find a list of the most important Unicode characters relating to email communication here!

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Or, do it the even easier way — online and in real time! And even more comfortable yet! The following link will guide you to our proprietary program:

fantomas mailShield™

Once you have followed the link above, all you need to do is to enter your selected email address and click on the encoding button: immediately after, you will see your uni-encoded address pop up in the window! And not to worry: our system will obviously not store your email address, your privacy is ensured.

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If you feel that uni-encoding email addresses is not enough by way of protecting your web site, how about uni-encoding entire web pages?

Of course, this encoded version should be readable for all browers without any restrictions.

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