Hi Jason,
Thanks for the response. My question however isn't about using mailto
draws attention to spam, but the mailto (direct email link) causes
problem for people who use no email client, because when you click on
the link, it wants to open up an email client. Some people find this
annoying. I sometime work at a print shop place for a client near
University Campus, where, he has a small internet cafe setup and the
computers have no email clients installed, even if they do, customers
can't send email via his account anyway. His customers go in to use
the internet for all kind of reasons; not once, but many times, I
overhead frustrated comments about the direct email link, because many
sites replaced email address to 'contact us' or other keywords, and
they can't see the email address, therefor can't copy and past to
their webmail. Although, you can still see the email address at status
bar when mouse over, but you can't copy it.
So base on these feedback, I always pay attention not to use email
link but a short contact us form or use something like 'company at xyz
client com' with no link, but I don't always get the freedom, because
some clients really must have email link, when they do, I feel I am
scarifying a good user experience.
tee
On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Jason Ray wrote:
I have used mailto: on the websites I have designed, which usually
include a reference to my email and I haven't really had issues with
spam. Spam filters on Gmail seem to be doing a fine job of filtering
out the mail I don't want to see, so I'm not all that concerned
about having my email address in a mailto:
I don't know what others have experienced though...
Jason
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