HACKER Q&A
📣 brundolf

Do you put your email address on your website?


Is it a bad idea? Does it invite spam/phishing? Or is it not really a big problem in practice?

It's not really hard to find my email address as-is, but it's maybe not as blindly scrape-able as it would be if I put it out there on my personal site


  👤 spindle Accepted Answer ✓
Personally, yes I do, and I get lots of spam, but Thunderbird filters it out for me extremely well. The only downside is that it narrows my choice of email system - if all the spam came to my inbox it would be a pain.

👤 zhte415
Yes, and have done for years. Plain text, no obstufication, on the front page of a .com I've had for around 20 years.

Around 5 messages per day get through the bulk filters my email provider has, mainly phishing emails from GMail.


👤 mtmail
It's on my website for 10 years now. I replaced "@" with "[at]" and that seems to be enough to keep the scrapers away.

👤 LinuxBender
Sortof. Just a form that emails me, if you solve a riddle. Is that not a thing any more? I feel old.