I couldn't agree more with the post. I've had my primary email address sitting out on my contact page for years and have never spent a significant amount of ti

I couldn't agree more with the post. I've had my primary email address sitting out on my contact page for years and have never spent a significant amount of time dealing with spam. At this point, obfuscated addresses are as archaic as animated "under construction" GIFs and the blink tag. Using the de-obfuscation process as a gating mechanism is arbitrary and perhaps a bit arrogant. There's no reason to assume that familiarity with this convention equates to intelligence or value. Even now, I still run into plenty of people in businesses outside of the tech industry that confuse website and email address formats. That doesn't make them "unworthy" of contacting us; it just means they have a different skillset and knowledge than we do. Meanwhile, email spammers and scammers are most likely to understand these conventions, since it's their "job" to do so.