Thank you, this is a good attitude to have and I wish more company exec’s thought like this. We might have fewer post’s like OP’s story.

My little firm is nothing like the scale of CF but I do the same and have dropped my email address around a fair bit. I do get some pretty interesting missives that make it past the filters but signal to noise is very high in my inbox.

I deleted my Linkedin account well over a year ago and I still get emails from them saying my profile is being viewed. Tossers.

If I ever have someones direct email I don’t think I would use it in any situation that I wouldn’t appreciate getting one myself.