MAS o Menos

In 2002, I created a cool little tool that builds an image from an email address. The purpose is to allow people to put a contact email address on a web site without spiders seeing it and sending them spam.

This page is quite popular. So when my web host decided to remove the component used to make the image, I started to get a few emails informing me the tool was throwing errors. In order to get it back and up and running quickly, I hacked out some new code using the recommended replacement for that image component. The replacement produces a grainy image and can’t measure the height of the text inside the image. The result is my cool little tool is less cool than it was four years ago.

I’ll most likely rewrite the entire thing in .NET where I can better control the image quality.

Feb 2007 Update: The Tool was rewritten using ASP.NET. Details here.

Tags: digitalcolony, email