Email security

We all hate spam. We all hate finding that our email address has been harvested into some spammer's files, ready to be sold to anyone. Fortunately, there are ways to slow the harvesters down.

The Cornbury site has implemented a number of anti-spam measures, the most recent being a thing called MailHide. Email addresses are automatically encrypted and converted to special links: for example, "junkmail@example.com" becomes junk...@example.com . Click on the three little dots and you're presented with a puzzle to solve before you're given the actual email address. The theory is that the puzzles are solvable only by humans, so automatic email harvesting programs will be unable to decipher your email address. The actual email address is nowhere to be found in the page.

The beauty of this is that it's all automatic - and retroactive! All email addresses on this site are now protected by MailHide - yet easily accessible to any human being.

Are there flaws in this? Likely, but I'm not going to explain them here! Email me at i...@cornbury.org if you're curious.