online-tool: encode your email address with unicode to reduce harvesting

[Martin Krzywinski]

Here's a little online utility to encode email addresses, links or any text
using unicode to something that's understandable by browsers but 'more'
difficult
to harvest by robots - thereby protecting your privacy.

http://mkweb.bcgsc.bc.ca/emailencode/

It's not impossible for the harvesters to parse out the emails, but the
encoding
is sufficient to confuse unsophisticated scripts which cannot parse unicode
encoding. The encoding utility randomly alters the base of the encoding
(dec/hex),
padding length and keeps retains some characters in their original form.

If you have a web site and would like to participate in trapping spam
spiders and
poisoning their email databases, check out the Spider Catcher

http://www.quoteserver.ca/email/dbase

Regards,

Martin

Martin Krzywinski
Genome Sciences Centre
600 W 10th Ave
Vancouver BC V5Z 4E6
tel 604.877.6086
fax 604.877.6085
http://www.bcgsc.ca