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Email Icon Generator

Do you know how spammers get your email address? One of their tactics is to send a spider out into the internet to harvest email address from webpages. That’s why you should never ever enter your full email address for display on a webpage - a spider would harvest it.

So people have resorted to typing down the abbreviated versions of the email addresses, like for an example, I would type mine as cowboycaleb at gmail dot com.

This website offers you an even more elegant solution. Just key in your id, choose an email provider and it will generate a pretty cool icon for you - just like the one below. After you’ve done this, you can place it on your website.


5 Comments

Posted by
Mandrake
24 January 2005 @ 9am

so do they sell your email address that you entered into their system?


Posted by
caleb
24 January 2005 @ 11am

paranoia


Posted by
Richard
24 January 2005 @ 11am

Thanks for the tip.


Posted by
Fat Fingers
24 January 2005 @ 8pm

i have received many emails asking me to enlarge my penis! i don’t have one leh….. :D
that’s a great link. :)


Posted by
keithf
24 January 2005 @ 11pm

great link dude.