About half a year ago, I added my real email address to my blog over there ← in the sidebar. I didn't obfuscate it in any way. Many people recommend using an image, or writing something like user@REMOVETHIS.gmail.com or other nifty tricks, which I did not employ. I even made the link a standard mailto: link that straight-up works.
This may surprise you, but I still don't "get" any spam. It has simply not been a problem. I mean, there are 355 spam emails in my Spam folder in Gmail which is the last 30 days of spam that hasn't yet been garbage collected. However, I didn't have to label any of those. <1 "real" spam message per month gets past this filter. I wish I had historical numbers that I could see to check if the number of Spam folder emails had gone up.
I still get the occasional email from someone that was hand-written whom I don't really want to talk to, but I don't consider these spam, nor do I think putting my email up made this worse. In fact, I think it may have helped. I no longer get these same folks writing me in a comment on some random unrelated blog post simply in order to reach me.
Anyway, I'm glad that I can now go back to being willing to let real people communicate with me in an easy to use way (email) without being spammed to death.
1 comments:
How I envy you. When I first posted my email address in my blog, I received at least a hundred spam in a week. This is the reason why I'm using image now, but I still get spam every now and then.
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