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How to reduce your website spam with a Contact Form vs Posted Email Address

Posting your email address online so spiders can crawl it, vs using a secure contact form

Why Posting Your Email Address Attracts Spam

Spiders are not just the lovable daddy long legs like on "Honey I shrunk the Kids", or the creepy crawlers that give you the puffed up eye lid morning present.  On the internet, they are used to "scrape" emails off of websites.  So if you post your email addresses on your website you are prone to being scraped by one of these virtual creepy crawlers and getting on an unwanted mass emailing list.

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