Dave, I know that I can easily add links to my Web pages that let people click and send me an e-mail message by specifying a malito: URL. However, I’ve heard rumors that there are some problems with spammers snagging those addresses of my site? I hate spam; should I just avoid e-mail addresses entirely?

Tons of people have mailto links on their sites, and most of them probably wonder why they’re getting an ever-increasing flood of spam to their inbox. This is yet another unfortunate ramification of spammers screwing up the Internet, in my opinion, because, yeah, it’d be nice to have a send me mail! link that worked without having to worry about misappropriation and exploitation of the data. But that’s not the world we live in.

So, yes, I recommend that you eschew any mailto links on your HTML Web pages.

There are some alternatives, however, so you don’t need to be completely incommunicado…

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