Adding your email address to your web site the safe way i.e. without getting SPAM !

Adding email to your web site can be a great way for your users to get in touch with you with issues they have which you can help them with. The problem is, as soon as you do that, it is likely your email address will attract a lot of spam bots obtaining your address to advertise things you really don't want to hear about.

So how do you get around this problem?

I recently discovered TinyMailto.com !

This is fantastic I will probably use it on my web sites in the future.

What does it do?

"TinyMailto.com lets you convert your e-mail address into a URL that is protected from spammers by a captcha test.

You can use a tinymailto URL to put it in public places like web pages, forum/e-mail signatures, etc. If someone wants to get your e-mail address, the person must pass a Captcha test in order to view and use your e-mail address.
This way, you can protect your e-mail address from spammers and web robots (web-bots).

A Captcha test is an image that can be interpreted only by a human being.

TinyMailto.com will work for you if you already put your e-mail address on the web sites."

Learn more by visiting the web site at http://tinymailto.com/

Something about Email you might not know of !

What is the difference between CC and BCC?

Cc stands for carbon copy which means that whose address appears after the Cc: header would receive a copy of the message. Also, the Cc header would also appear inside the header of the received message.

Bcc stands for blind carbon copy which is similar to that of Cc except that the Email address of the recipients specified in this field do not appear in the received message header and the recipients in the To or Cc fields will not know that a copy sent to these address.

So next time you want to hide certain contact(s) when sending out an email to more than one person simply use the Blind Carbon Copy feature instead of plain CC.

Great huh !