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What is email address munging?

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What is email address munging?

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Email address munging is the act of using ASCII, JavaScript, and scrambling of letters in your email address in order to hide your email address from spam bots, spiders, and spoofers. Our anti junk email tool protects your email address and helps prevent spam by avoiding spam bots and email address harvesters. This tool allows you to munge and mask your email address by using ASCII, JavaScript, and/or image links. Any useful site needs to have contact information posted, and this has to include an email address. Encoding your email address when you post it on the web is essential if you want to stop spam bots and spiders from continuing to find your email address information and sending it bulk email. A large research study by the Center for Democracy and Technology shows that munging your email address the way we do helps strongly, successfully, and efficiently to avoid junk mail. You can call it “mung”, “munge”, “encode”, “obfuscate”, “mask”, “hide”, “cloak”, or “conceal”. Most websi

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