Editing Anti-spam techniques (section)

===Address munging===
{{Main|Address munging}}

Email addresses posted on [[webpage]]s, [[Usenet]] or [[chat rooms]] are vulnerable to [[e-mail address harvesting]].<ref>[http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/spamalrt.htm Email Address Harvesting: How Spammers Reap What You Sow] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060424083903/http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/spamalrt.htm |date=April 24, 2006 }}, Federal Trade Commission. URL accessed on 24 April 2006.</ref> Address munging is the practice of disguising an [[e-mail address]] to prevent it from being automatically collected in this way, but still allow a human reader to reconstruct the original: an email address such as, "<nowiki>no-one@example.com</nowiki>", might be written as "no-one at example dot com", for instance. A related technique is to display all or part of the email address as an image, or as jumbled text with the order of characters restored using [[CSS]].