When you don't put your email on your website...

... Your innkeeping friends can't send you photos to play 'guess where I am?'

I'm sure some feel spam is a problem and prefer to have contact forms. I've always had mine listed on web and in print, sure get too much spam at times, but I don't want to hide from potential guests either.

lately I have not been putting emails on sites. Just force people to use the contact form. If do put the email on...I don't make it a link...so someone has to copy and paste it if they want to use it. Have no clue if this is "proper" or not but it is what I have done.

JimBoone said:

I'm sure some feel spam is a problem and prefer to have contact forms. I've always had mine listed on web and in print, sure get too much spam at times, but I don't want to hide from potential guests either..

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JimBoone said:

I'm sure some feel spam is a problem and prefer to have contact forms. I've always had mine listed on web and in print, sure get too much spam at times, but I don't want to hide from potential guests either.

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Yes, there was discussion of this a few years ago, with me saying posting your email address as text is inviting spam, but others saying they never get spam so it's not a problem.
For years I posted the email address as an image so it wasn't clickable or copyable, but now I use contact forms and it goes well.

I dislike contact forms and sometimes change my mind about emailing when faced with one.

I use a contact form because otherwise I get so much spam. I'm already at about 100 a day. I don't really need more.

Generic said:

I use a contact form because otherwise I get so much spam. I'm already at about 100 a day. I don't really need more..

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Generic said:

I use a contact form because otherwise I get so much spam. I'm already at about 100 a day. I don't really need more.

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Yeah, you. You're the one I'm talking about! ;-)

TheBeachHouse said:

I dislike contact forms and sometimes change my mind about emailing when faced with one..

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TheBeachHouse said:

I dislike contact forms and sometimes change my mind about emailing when faced with one.

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Me too, I generally say too much and spell too poorly, I like to see what I have written before I hit send and often that isn't easy in a contact form unless I just going to write "please email me". I'm also a pack rat and save my emails that I send for reference.