bracketslash
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Do you receive a lot of spam emails?
Do you have your email address in your signature, or anywhere on the web?
There is a connection between the two: email harvesting has a main source of forum signatures.
There is a way to have your email in your signature AND prevent your email address from being harvested, however!
The solution is to generate a transparent image of your email address so that it is in image form and not plain-text form.
Note: This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with PHP, or at least PHP-style formatting.
First, we must instantiate the header for our PHP file as the type "image/png" so that when our PHP file is opened it displays a PNG image.
To be continued
from the cluttered DROID RAZR of bracketslash
Do you have your email address in your signature, or anywhere on the web?
There is a connection between the two: email harvesting has a main source of forum signatures.
There is a way to have your email in your signature AND prevent your email address from being harvested, however!
The solution is to generate a transparent image of your email address so that it is in image form and not plain-text form.
Note: This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with PHP, or at least PHP-style formatting.
First, we must instantiate the header for our PHP file as the type "image/png" so that when our PHP file is opened it displays a PNG image.
To be continued
from the cluttered DROID RAZR of bracketslash