it's like reading a post from a mirror world. in my world i make it easy to find my email address by googling my name - it's a link on the top result. why? because then people can send email. as a result they do things like offer me jobs and pay me. why would i want to stop people knowing who i am or what my email address is?

(fwiw i currently use gmail for spam filtering, but have also had success with spamassassin)