Should I use my email address in a comment, article, or blog I write?

NO! Absolutely not. Telling your email address on a public website means you invite email harvesters who in turn will flood your mailbox with spam.

On our DCVA website it is our policy to provide a contact form instead of an e-mail address. The contact form provides a text area for the message, and an input for the sender's e-mail address. The server-side script that processes the posted form data, is then responsible for sending the actual message, which means that the e-mail address of the recipient is never exposed.

Users who really have to post e-mail addresses on websites can use "address munging" to make it harder to harvest. For example by changing "bob@example.domain" to "bob at example dot domain" to keep the address from being harvested by simple bots.

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