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munging
Last modified: Thursday, August 30, 2007 

(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.

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Address munging is done by making the email address unreadable to such harvester programs but understandable to humans.

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