pageoneresults - 7:55 pm on May 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hehehe, I'm one of those who has been on a mission to remove all email references from the sites that I manage. All Contact Us links lead to the contact form. We do include a line that reads; If you do not wish to fill out the form below, you can send an email to Company Name. The email address is hidden but viewable once you click on the link.

When I'm doing reciprocal linking, I find a form to be extremely frustrating, and will often just say forget it.

Your loss! Actually, if you are looking for quality reciprocal links, you'll take the minute or two it might require to fill out the form.

There have been many threads here on how to disguise or hide email addresses from the spambots and some are very informative.

I will no longer post email addresses on web sites as I used to do years ago. I always include the Contact Us link in highly visible areas on every page.

If you are serious about contacting me, or contacting one of my clients, you will take the minute or two and complete the form. If not, you'll click on that sole email link on the Contact Us form and send a regular email to me. If your email does not contain the information that I would get from the form submission, it will most likely go in the trash. Why? Because the form is there for two reasons; one to combat spam, and two; to make sure that the information required for a contact request reply is complete.

Hehehe, makes life a little harder when you can't automate the process of sending out link exchange emails. More power to the Contact Us forms. ;)