

Munge
Conceal an email address in HTML
This page up to date on: 12 Feb 2025
Munge is about as simple as a Basic program can get. It's a convenient way to turn a mailto: link into entities, making it harder for bots to harvest email addesses.
Sceptical? Does this seem unlikely? Maybe but I do not see spam arriving at addesses munged in this way.
Simply drop the Basic file 'munge' from the download munge.zip (485bytes) into your !Boot.Library, open a Taskwindow and type *munge. You will be asked to enter an email address (or anything - there's no error checking) and when you hit return you will see something like this:
Enter email address to be munged : a@bcd.ef This code can be added to your HTML. Copy text below line. ---------------------------------------------------------- <A HREF="mailto:a @bcd.ef"> a@bcd.ef</A> *
And here you have that 'encoded' mailto link: a@bcd.ef
Take a look at the source of this page to see what it really looks like.