What you're looking for is a different service with different goals, and that doesn't make this one worse at what it is trying to do.
Writing in one’s voice doesn’t need to have an email address attached with it. I can understand using the person’s name. You could do better by not displaying the email address or obfuscating it. Or you could remove that “Grandpa and Grandma” part from your description and say that it’s for those who understand how email addresses in public can get misused.
Thank you for your suggestions!
I still believe your site is harmful to users unless the default is publishing with just the name and no email address, with an option of publishing with the email address if someone really wants to. The current defaults seem inverted.
I’ll stop with this comment since I’ve said enough.
If people wish to expose their name and email, they can include an email signature!
Edit: If you already posted, this page was already archived so you should create a new e-mail address if you want to be pseudoanonymous.
If you want it to be visible with a link only and not even show on your user page, you can send to [email protected].
Anonymous posting is coming next!
That way the users email is hidden with an anonymous alias. But people can still reply to that alias email.
Leaving aside that a site like this is so wide open for abuse of all kinds it won't last five minutes, I don't even see the advantage of submitting a form at an email provider over simply submitting a form directly on the site.
We offer a public API with no access, so there is limited risk and, in addition, we do not use cookies. There are some dangers, but it's really limited in this context!
An attacker can just as easily perform the same attacks with free webhosting on any of the thousands of free webhosts!
You send an email to this service to post a blog entry, and this service exposes your name and email address (as obtained from the email headers) to everyone! That’s a huge privacy disconnect in a world where exposed emails can cause a lot of problems, and more so for non-technical people, which this service intends to make things easy for.
One look at the homepage of this service shows all the email addresses used by the users to post. Since the service also claims (in another comment here) that spoofed email addresses won’t work, users must use a non-personal address and name if they don’t wish to expose their information publicly.