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| Hello, spam bots! Err... Spongebob... (photo credit: Julia of MySpace) |
A naked e-mail address (for instance yourname@gmail.com) is a bare-all piece of contact information. It is (1) completely seen, (2) easily copied and (3) usually clickable.
While posting this kind of detail will gain you instant connectivity points with an audience, it comes with a price: a flood of spam, some identity thievery or both. The whole circus just smells too sweet and inviting for human spammers and automated spam bots.
How in the world then do you keep your information safe without ex-communicating yourself from your readers? Simple: You dress it up. I've seen a number of veteran bloggers employ the following dress-up methods:
