I always have a moment of hesitation before I put my (or anyone’s) email address somewhere on the public web. While I’m not completely convinced of their prevalence, I understand that there are crawlers looking for email addresses. These bots are said to cultivate these email addresses which are later used for spam and who knows what else.

Wondering if there was something easy I could do to combat this I stumbled across a perfect little solution. Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic fame had already created the exact thing I sought out. It’s called Enkoder, and is available in both OS X app and browser form. Usage is simple, just plug in the email address and link copy and you are given the <script> tag to paste into your HTML.