HIDDEN EMAIL-ID TRICK

Hidden e-mail ID trick

If you own a Unix/Linux blog and want to display your e-mail address in a way that there is no scope of it being misused by spammers then try the following trick (assuming e-mail address to bedummy@mylinuxbook.com):

First, run the following command :

$ echo dummy@mylinuxbook.com | tr a-z@. n-za-m.@

This should produce following output :

qhzzl.zlyvahkobbx@pbz

Now, to play cool, just display the following command on your blog :

echo qhzzl.zlyvahkobbx@pbz | tr a-z@. n-za-m.@

This is because whenever somebody will copy and run this command on Linux, he/she will get your e-mail ID as output.

$ echo qhzzl.zlyvahkobbx@pbz | tr a-z@. n-za-m.@
dummy@mylinuxbook.com