Les Jones: Email Icon Generator

May 24, 2007

Tech > Email Icon Generator

This is a little gem of a Web application. Enter your email address for dozens of popular ISPs and email services and it generates a colorful icon of your email address. Spam harvesters can snag plain text email addresses and add them to spamming databases, but they can't read graphics. If you don't have a place to upload images Nexodyne will even host it for you. Brilliant.

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>Spam harvesters can snag plain text email
>addresses and add them to spamming databases,
>but they can't read graphics.

Of course, they don't really need to harvest your e-mail address now that you've gone and helpfully typed it right into their database for them.

Posted by: Stormy Dragon at May 24, 2007

Come on, do you really have any reason to believe Nexodyne is a spam harvester?

Posted by: Les Jones at May 24, 2007

That is cool...thanks!

Posted by: Ginger at May 25, 2007

Well, it is possible to read text from an image, that's why captchas are so distorted. I suppose it depends on the likelihood of spam harvesters being able to quickly judge every picture to see if it has an email address.

Posted by: Alcibiades at May 25, 2007

I dunno, I put in my e-mail address, and the icon looked like it would if I opened MS Paint, typed in my address, and saved as a .jpg/.bmp/.png.

With the possible exception of the "comcast" being written to incorporate the Comcast logo.

Like I want to give them a plug on my blog. I'm paying them.

Posted by: Bruce at May 29, 2007

Oh but they can read images Les

Posted by: manekineko at June 01, 2007