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Show your email address!
Have you too seen the nice "mail me" icons that sprout on blogs and web sites everywhere and stopped for a moment, wondering what makes them? I did some time ago, but didn't stop enough to actually search for a source, and cooked my own instead. (Hence the somewhat different size, adjusted to fit snugly in my blog sidebar.)
By a pleasant coincidence, I today stumbled on it (or one of them, anyway) in a post by Yukuan Jiang (in Chinese, so I assume you too might prefer to have Google translate it to English, or something close to it).
I whole-heartedly recommend giving visitors options for ways of contacting you; it gives a much better impression than anonymous blogs where it is difficult to get in touch with the author. Everybody wins, and images like these don't get crawled by spam bots either. Leave out the additional HTML
mailto: link around the image if you are really paranoid about getting spam that way.
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I have previously not used any method of showing my email address on my blog -- for fear of SPAM etc. What I realised, however, is that half the time I'm replying to commentors via email, giving them my address anyway. Since the graphic can only (theoretically at least) be read by potential commentors, who aren't usually prone to SPAMming, I went today and added such a graphic to my template. It links to my contact page on ning, so that my email address isn't directly visible in the page code but people can still click it and contact me :)