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E-Mail Image Signature Generator

signaturegenerator.net — Every time you post your email address a spammer's robot can find you. This service creates an image file that can be read by humans but not the robots. Just choose your e-mail service, type in your e-mail account name, and save your image.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 8, 2006

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  • patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26The operators of this site are going to have a huge list of good email addresses to sell to the spammers.
  • astatine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Alternatively, hunt down spammers and stab them in the face.
  • ThePottsDome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You can also mine your web pages with e-mail harvester bombs.
    http://english-82756500865.spampoison.com/
  • Hosalabad, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Looks like a great way to harvest addresses.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5personally, I find repeatedly hitting them over the head with a 12-ounce can of spicy ham much more satisfying...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Create an image from my nutzy! What a spambait...
  • superdoug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, but some fools will link their image with a "mailto:" Link.
  • ttiwguitar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That site looks pretty sketchy, this looks way safer... same script, just no middleman.

    http://www.liquism.com/downloads/email/
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like what you're saying. Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?
  • Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Will spammers understand this?

    [script]
    var n='yourname';
    var d='gmail';
    var e='com';
    var dot = '.';
    var m='mailto:';
    var a = '@';
    var all = n+a+d+dot+e;
    document.write('[a href="" onClick="this.href=m+this.innerHTML"]'+all+'[/a]')
    [/script]
  • resplence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Still, a great way to harvest addresses.
  • ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LOL. Stop getting spam by giving strangers your email addy!
  • GoNoles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd trust this site more and it's images look harder for a bot to read: http://www.domaintools.com/domain-privacy/email-protection.html
  • ThePottsDome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mo better
  • domusvita, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If captcha can be hacked, can't this? Also, if your address is a little long (christopher.thompson at hotmail dot com ) then it cuts it off.
  • patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no. it is a graphic representation of text. like a photo. would a digital picture of your cursive signature have your name in the source code? of course not. this is no different.
  • spyder91, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You can download the scripts directly for off-line use here: http://www.liquism.com/downloads/email/
  • drfloyd5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Lame. Why can a "robot" not read that? It's not like its even obfuscated.
  • oneaustin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just make sure you change the name of the image file!
    It is an image file= no source code on the sites
  • robcornelius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0surely by describing changing your email address into an image in the article you have made the site you link to worthless. Any moron with an image editor can do that themselves now.
  • ThePottsDome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wouldn't your e-mail address still be visable in the source code ?
  • dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I bet Digg has far more emails than this site will get.
    [drfloyd5]> "Lame. Why can a "robot" not read that? It's not like its even obfuscated." - I doubt any spammer has the resources to crawl the internet, and not only download all text, but all images, and do text-recognition on them *all*, check if their infact valid emails.. The ammount of emails you'd get (Maybe, 1 out of every few thousand images) makes it totally impractical to do..
    - Ben
  • custerfluck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It's too bad it doesn't work with @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
  • akak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What am I missing? why not just create your own image in photoshop and bypass all these
  • imafish2002, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7did you not see the first and at the time only comment!?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Did you not see the second comment where you can download the code to use on your own site?
  • sirstaunch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0How would this work? Like you're filling in fields on a form to subscribe to somewhere and in the email field you put the link to the image?

    Seems screwed up seen that a Robot sends the email to confirm your subscription¿¿¿?
  • resplence, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Looks awful.

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