munging

Note munging violates the rules upon which Usenet is built.

An example of munging "" via client-side scripting would be:

Detailed information on doing this can be found in the Address Munging FAQ.

Address munging is the practice of disguising an e-mail address to prevent it from being automatically collected by unsolicited bulk e-mail providers.

In 2001 Manning Press published Dave Cross's first book Data Munging With Perl.

Here is Eric's script for munging updated RPMs into the RedHat distribution area:

Data Munging with Perl (Dr Damian Conway)

For more info on address-munging for Usenet posts, have a look at the official Address Munging FAQ.

While methods exist to "harden" mailto links against harvesting-address munging and JavaScript-based address obfuscation among them-these protections can be circumvented by sufficiently sophisticated harvesting robots.

When he was back then, he thought the munging came from being stuck here with his mammy, but he'll have learnt, he'll be able to tell us all about his travels.

Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots.

'Address munging' is the practice of disguising, or munge, an e-mail address to prevent it being automatically collected and used as a target for people and organizations who send e-mail spam.

In fact it is messy and not clean, hence the term Data Munging which refers to the messy art and science of getting data from all different sources with different formats to connect to each other.

No spam filter is 100 percent immune to false positives, however, and the same potential correspondent that would have been deterred by address munging may instead end up wasting time on long letters that will merely disappear into junk mail folders.

Address munging is intended to disguise an e-mail address in a way that prevents computer software from seeing the real address, or even any address at all, but still allows a human reader to reconstruct the original and contact the author: an email address such as, "", becomes "no-one at example dot com", for instance.