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There’s also the bigger issue your directly exposing an email address to web scrapers like it’s not the 90s using mailto forms is a shocking take as acceptable



This isn’t really a concern for me. I’ve had my gmail exposed to web scrapers for decades without making me regret it.

For this purpose though it’s a non-issue as I also have a contact email published on my site so people can email me. And I would create a separate mailbox just for the form.

I’m not sure why people are concerned about their email being scraped as it’s comical that any email address isn’t already on a million spam lists.


exposing mail addresses on the web is fine as long as you have semi-decent spam filters.

obsfucating addreses won't work much longer anyway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150096




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