You might have heard about URL shortener, but have you ever heard about email shortener? Leaving your email as plain text in forums, on Twitter or on other sites makes you an easy spam target. Spam robots and email harvesters constantly browse these sites to collect new victim’s emails.

To get rid of public spam, I would like to introduce you with a very helpful email shortening tool, Scr.im. Like URL shortener, Scr.im converts your email address to a short URL and prevent spammers to spam you.

saaz@hacktweaks.com can be shortened to http://scr.im/saaz. People willing to email you will go to this URL that will reveal your email address, after a simple test that automated scripts and bots cannot pass.