EmailShroud

In order for spammers to send email to millions of people, they need millions of email addresses. One way to get these addresses is to automatically search the web, harvesting email addresses from unsuspecting web-sites. EmailShroud helps to protect email addresses that are published on a WordPress Blog.

Note: EmailShroud is not like most of the anti-spam plugins for WordPress. EmailShroud does not protect the blog against Comment Spam. EmailShroud helps to protect the owner, authors and other people mentioned on a blog from receiving email spam.

EmailShroud does more than just use ?escape codes?, which is a poor-man?s solution to this problem.

It uses JavaScript to ?obfuscate? the email address. Spammers don?t run JavaScript during their harvesting, as it would take too much effort and is unlikely to help produce many more email addresses. Almost all browsers used to actually read blogs do run JavaScript ? the browser transparently decodes the email address without the reader even noticing.

EmailShroud gracefully handles browsers that are not running JavaScript.