Protect Your Church Email Addresses From Spam

reCAPTCHA is a neat tool that protects your email addresses online from the spiders that crawl the web looking to include you in their Spam emails.

Here’s a description:

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

And here’s an example of how it works using my email address:

cory…@gmail.com