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name [at] domain [dot] com . Sounds familiar? This is the format that people use nowadays to give out their email addresses in public forums or websites to avoid spam. tinymail.me has come up with a solution, which doesn’t really make it more easier to give our your email address, but it provides you with that extra layer of security and privacy to make sure you don’t find your email address ending up in the hands of spam kings.

Just navigate to the website, enter you email address and click protect it. It’ll then provide you with HTML, BB-Code and a standard link, any of which you can use where applicable to provide a protected and masked email address of yours.

This isn’t just it, whenever someone clicks on that link, they’ll be taken to a tinymail.me page, where they’ll have to fill the Captcha box to unlock it and use it. This way it stays safe from automatic email harvesters who now use smart methods to even read email address in the name [at] domain [dot] com format.

This method is reminiscent of the URL shortening methods in use nowadays with microblogging services like Twitter and the likes. Although it seems like a hassle, it really protects you from the nuisance that is spam. This one is surely a keeper for your bookmarks.