blog accessibility

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Mar 13, 2007 at 6:39 pm

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  I have been doing some research on blog accessiblility and one person suggests making it easy for your readers to contact you. I am considering placing my email address in my ABOUT section and wanted to get some feedback on how this has helped or hindered you or your blog.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 13, 2007 at 6:44 pm

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  If you decide to post an email address I would offer the following advice:
  (1) Do not use your primary email address, instead get a throw away free one from yahoo, hotmail, or wherever.
  (2) When you post your email address use an email image generator to discourage spam bots from reading it. Here are links to some free email address image generators:

  (a) http://services.nexodyne.com/email/
  (b) Here is the link to an email address generator that doesn’t have to be Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. thus it can be useful for those with their own websites.
  generator – http://pribadi.or.id/email/
  blog article – http://pribadi.or.id/diary/2005/05/12/newmod-email-image-generator/
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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 13, 2007 at 6:46 pm

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  I had an email posted but took it down. Most people contact me through comments on the blog; having the email posted only upped my spam substantially.

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  judyb12 · Member · Mar 13, 2007 at 6:48 pm

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  I don’t have high volume sites like Raincoaster and TimeThief, but the only one i have put my email address on (and that in an image generated by nexodyne.com) is one that i don’t allow comments on.

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Mar 13, 2007 at 7:16 pm

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  Thanks so much for your input. Helped me tremendously. Have a great day.