(MUHN-jing) The act of altering an
e-mail address posted on a
Web
page to make it unreadable to
bots and harvesters that crawl the Web for e-mail
addresses to include on spam lists. Munging is where the e-mail address is not
fully written out but is still understandable to anyone reading the Web page.
The characters to the left of the @ symbol in your e-mail address should not be
altered when munging.
For example, munging the fakeaddress@webopedia.com e-mail address could result
in something like fakeaddress-AT-webopedia-DOT-com.
The term munge is frequently defined as "mash until no good" and is also
called address munging.
