Putting your e-mail address on your blog

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  questionof · Member · Nov 27, 2009 at 2:08 pm

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  I’ve read somewhere on this forum that it’s not a good idea to put your e-mail address on your blog. Is this right?
  In that case, does a “contact me” button then exist?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 27, 2009 at 2:26 pm

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  Here is info about the contact form:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  It works well.

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  questionof · Member · Nov 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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  Thank you :-)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 27, 2009 at 2:31 pm

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  My pleasure.

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  questionof · Member · Nov 27, 2009 at 8:13 pm

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  BTW it works fine!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2009 at 8:20 pm

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  If you do wish to post an email address then what’s important is the form you post it in. This post explains two other alternatives to using the contact form. They include posting the email address as an image (links to free email address image generators). Be sure that you do not link this email address image that you create to your actual email address when posting it as doing so will entirely defeat your purpose. It also includes links to email address mungers.
  http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/eluding-email-address-spam-bots/

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  youngjohnsam · Member · Nov 27, 2009 at 8:22 pm

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  My thanks too 1Tess. I’d been wondering about that for a while.
  Just added it to my blog and it works great.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 27, 2009 at 8:46 pm

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  @youngjohnsam
  You are welcome, and I’m very happy that you learned something useful. I spent a lot of time reading forum threads when I was a newbie. It was a great way to figure out how to use WordPress.