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Obfuscated e-mail addresses
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When I was new to the Web, I made up a web site and put my e-mail address on it. I soon found that I was getting a ton of junk mail. These were the early days of "spam."
It turns out that people were grabbing email addresses, storing them away in a gigantic database, and selling them to mass online marketing organizations (a.k.a. spammers).
To avoid this happening to Clearspring's great volunteers, I munged up the e-mail information on the Contact info page so it cannot easily be "harvested" in a usable form by web crawlers. For more info on e-mail harvesting, see Wikipedia.
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OK, fine. but what does all of this mean for ME?
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So, when you click on an e-mail address for "john@aol.com," for instance, it will come up in your mail program looking like this: "john_at_aol_dot_com." If you replace the "_at_" with an "@" sign and the _dot_ with a period "." you will get a valid e-mail address. A small amount of work, but we think it's well worth it!
Dave
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