I have a professional site with a mailto link.
I like offering my clients convenience. Who has time to copy and paste
or memorize an email address for crying out loud? Certainly not
mothers with new babies and that's my target audience. What happened
to making life easy for our clients? I have no idea if I get spammed
because of my link or not. If I do, it's worth it to me. YMMV.
Lea
bigger than life
On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:42 PM, "James B. Davis" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:47:15 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
wrote/replied to:
The secure javascript tricks are all very well, except that
security-conscious people have javascript turned off, more and more
people are browsing from mobile devices many of which don't support
javascript, people can't put them in their address book for future
reference, and so forth.
I don't have java turned off and I'm security conscious. Lord knows
I've got
enough firewalls and defenders and I use Firefox as well. I can't
imagine
surfing without java though. And I like the ability to auto insert a
subject
line when someone clicks on my java E-Mail link. I include an image
of my E-Mail
address in a few places so people can actually type it in if they
don't see
Java. With the subject line auto inserted I can auto sort that mail
too, a big
bonus when you've got an online business.
As for mobile devices, I've got plenty of replies from them using
the java
E-Mail link, although these one line replies are getting annoying.
The problem with auto Spam controls is you could miss something
important. I
can't afford that because I have a business. I do route some junk
and delete
some but not that much. I'd really not want to deal with any more
though, less
is better.
Take a look at any 'professional' webpage and you won't see any
mailto links.
Keep it up there if you want, I'm just saying there are better
alternatives.
--
Jim Davis, Owner, Eastern Beaver Company:
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