• Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

KevinPierpont.com

The Pierponts at Camp Barakel

  • Home
  • Support
  • About
  • Camp Barakel
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

Make Spammers Work for Your E-mail Address

Have you ever received an unsolicited e-mail invitation to earn thousands of dollars a month in only an hour or two a week? If you are like many, not only do you get those, but you get e-mail of a nature worse than that also. Did you know that a prime location for those who send you unsolicited e-mail to get your e-mail address is from your web site? Maybe you have a personal site or you are a Pastor and your e-mail address is on your church web site.

You might wonder how those who send you this garbage have the time to go looking for your e-mail address. It would be very time-consuming for someone to go looking for e-mail addresses by hand, one site at a time. But most spammers use spambots to do their dirty work. A spambot is a program written solely for the purpose of harvesting e-mail addresses.

If you have your own web site or someone takes care of your church web site for you, you may wish to investigate the use of a tool or two that makes it a bit harder for spammers to get your e-mail addresses.

In the past I’ve used a little program called MailTo-Encrypter. Mailto-Encrypter takes your e-mail address and makes it difficult for spambots to harvest by encoding it numerically. It’s still a click-able mailto link but is designed to confuse spambots expecting straight e-mail addresses.

Recently, I found a tool I think does the job a little more thoroughly. Dean Peters over at Heal Your Church Web Site has a tool he’s made available he calls Mean Dean’s Anti-spam Obfuscator. This tool, in Dean’s words, “will randomly convert your entries into a combination of numeric and hexadecimal encodings, as well as a salting of some non-converted characters”. Dean’s site is useful for more than his Anti-spam Obfuscator. He also has good articles and pointers about making your church web site more usable and useful.

Whatever you do, choosing to use one of these tools should at least help keep the unwanted e-mail to a minimum. I also suggest you read, if you maintain a site or point your churches web servant to Dean’s article about the necessities of such a tool and how his tool works.

Filed Under: Notes July 6, 2002

Join the Newsletter

Exclusive content by email only for subscribers.

We respect your privacy.

Primary Sidebar

The Pierpont Family

Pierpont Family to Camp Barakel
Camp Barakel Resident Missionary Staff

Join the Support Team

Learn more

  • The Pierponts to Camp Barakel
  • Exciting News (Video)
  • Chapel – Just One Place the Gospel is Heard at Barakel (video)
  • The Barakel Green and White Buses (video)
  • View kevin.a.pierpont’s profile on Facebook
  • View nivek’s profile on Twitter
  • View kevinapierpont’s profile on Instagram

Join the Newsletter

Exclusive content by email only for subscribers.

We respect your privacy.

More Inside

  • Home
  • About
  • What Is The Gospel?
  • Camp Barakel
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • Podcasts
  • Search
  • Privacy Policy

Follow on Twitter

My Tweets

Recent Posts

  • Winter Retreat Highlights
  • Barakel News Winter 2018
  • Barakel News Spring 2018
  • Camp Barakel Jr. High and Junior Camps July 3-9, 2018
  • 2018 Camp Barakel Teen Retreat January 12-14

Copyright © 2019 · Twitter · Instagram · Facebook · Google+ · Affiliate Disclosure · Sitemap · Links · RSS Feed · Lovingly ♥ Crafted by WPatch

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkPrivacy policy