just shoot you an email.

Dunno why people are still afraid of just posting their email addresses. I use gmail for my domain specific account and just rely on their spam catching tools. If you run your own server then there are lots of anti spam tools as well.

Edit: To expand on my reasoning, don’t make it hard for people to contact you. There’s no reason to be afraid of spurious email contacts. They’re easy to mark as spam and ignore future contacts.

When have you seen people obfuscate their public social media contact addresses? I haven’t seen anyone hide their Twitter, FB public pages, or LinkedIn addresses. Email shouldn’t be any different for general contact purposes.

Now the one exception I have is work email addresses. I don’t publicize those.

[email protected]

Maybe because it makes their accounts easier to find when people google their email address?

You never know what someone might do with that information I guess :)

I totally get that. But in this specific case where someone is saying “contact me”, I don’t think you should make this’ll at harder.

Some people get really hostile online and try to start witch hunts. I've seen it happen even here on hacker news.