How Can I Give Out My E-Mail Address?
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I’d like to add my contact information to my main blog page. I don’t need a form or anything, just a link with my e-mail address. This seems like a simple task, but I just cannot figure out how to do it. I don’t even know how to show my profile (which should have my e-mail address) on my blog.
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If you put a link on your contact page with your address, spam crawlers will grab it and soon your inbox will look like…let’s not say what.
You can put your address in a format that deters the bad guys; write it out long hand.
addressname at gmail dot com
addressname at yahoo dot com
(email visible only to moderators and staff)
Humans can put two and two together and remove the capital letters.
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I’d really rather not have a separate page. I just want something in the upper-right that says, E-mail me!
Good tip about the at dot com, though.
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You can put the same data into a text widget. It is very easy to do, and it will be in your side bar. Here is the FAQ page on Text Widgets:
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Spammers are getting far more sophisticated and can actually now parse addresses such as “addressname at yahoo dot com” or “addressname [at] yahoo [dot] com” and turn them into a valid email address, so that is becoming less of a solution.
My suggestion would be to have a link in your sidebar which can say, “email me” but have it link to a contact page where they can then enter their information.
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Unfortunately the [at] and [dot] and removethisbeforemailing kind of tricks to hide your email from spammers don’t work as well any more. I’ve seen spambots that can replace [dot] and [at] properly after harvesting. Still worth a try.
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They even have scripts now that can automatically figure out most captcha’s so that then can get past your comment spam filters.
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I have often thought that if spammers were to turn their energies towards something good like re-engineering social networking, or creating new interactive blog tools…we would see a Web 3.0 that would knock our socks off…
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The spammers are too busy chasing the four horsemen – power, sex, money and fame – to be bothered with doing something that would benefit us all.
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You can use the email contact form also by putting this
short cut in a page [contact-form] -
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