Fed up of spam in your Inbox, especially from forums, social networking sites, websites etc. where you shared your email at one point of time?
scr.im is a new service that allows you to convert your email into a URL that ensures that a user keen on finding out your email goes the extra step.
You can begin by entering your email address on the site and choosing a URL.
Hit Protect my email and you’re email address will, well,… be protected!
You can then enter the URL of your choice in Twitter, Facebook, in HTML pages, on your blog, in forums etc.
Clicking on the URL provides the user a “Match the CAPTCHA”.
On selecting the CAPTCHA, you’re email address is revealed to the user.
There is one problem that I perceive with sharing is when the site checks the email field for valid emails. They usually check for the presence of the @ and . in your email which scr.im doesn’t provide you.
A foolproof way of working with scr.im is if they give you a way to “create” an email address that could then direct to the URL as it is now. They are still in beta, so I hope they implement this soon.
Advanced users can tap into the API to automatically encode URLs.
You can contact me at http://scr.im/techtites
Protect your email from spam with scr.im was first posted on March 23, 2009 at 12:02 pm.
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