Questions and Answers
about the
Harvest-Proof Email Link

I'm using your link on my site, but I'm still getting spammed. How come?

The most likely reason is that your email address was already on spammers' lists. Using a spam-harvest-proof email link won't remove addresses from their lists.

Another possibility is that the same email address was harvested from somewhere else. See Protecting Your Email Address, in the "Some Ways Email Addresses Are Harvested" subtitle, for a list of some ways that spammers can grab your email addresses.

For best results, create your spam-harvest-proof email link with an email address that isn't and never has been published or used anywhere else. In the same article (previous paragraph) is a "The Best Secret Email Address" subtitle that can guide you when making a new email address.

I put the harvest-proof thing you gave me into my email program and it wouldn't work. How come?

The harvest-proof link URL is for clickable links. It won't work as an email address for sending email directly from your email program. That's because it is not an email address, but a URL.

Use the URL we gave you as a link on a web page. Then click on it. It will work that way.

How exactly do I use the email link?

Let's suppose you have a normal mailto: link on your web page. It might look something like this:

<a href="mailto:name@example.com">
name@example.com
</a>

That will be replaced.

Get a spam-harvest-proof email link for your email address, then use that link URL instead of the mailto: link (and something other than your email address in the link text). Example (substitute your own spam-harvest-proof email link in place of the example one):

<a href="http://flow-to.com/email/w0123456789.mth">
Click to email me.
</a>

That's all you have to do, replace your mailto: link with your spam-harvest-proof email link, and make sure your email address is not published anywhere.

You can also use your spam-harvest-proof email link in forum posts and other locations where a regular URL may be used. The email link URL can be used straight, like (substitute your own spam-harvest-proof email link in place of the example one):

Click this 
http://flow-to.com/email/w0123456789.mth
URL to email me.