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Discussion: Contact form Vs. Share email address Vs. both? #35

Open zurda opened 5 years ago

zurda commented 5 years ago

We currently have a contact form and a page where the supplier's email is shared (in pages/commissions.js): 

<Mail href="mailto:hello@dovilejewellery.com" target="_top">

I'm not too familiar with best practices of sharing emails in an html page, and I'd love to learn more. I was thinking we could use this issue to share resources / discuss best practices of the two. The goal would be to decide which to use or would we like to use both for different types of contact?

Would love to know your thoughts and experience!

g1st commented 5 years ago

After a bit of googling I think best here would be to have both options available for users convenience. Yes there are bots sending spam to exposed emails but apparently there are bots filling forms and sending spam that way as well! But google and other services are handling spam mail quite good these days. So something along the lines Please feel free to message me at hello@dovilejewellery.com or submit the contact form below. might be best?

nikrb commented 5 years ago

I'm not sure this adds anything to the discussion, but if a bot is scraping pages I think it will find an email regardless of how it is included in the page. That said I think you probably want potential customers to be able to send you an email, though a contact form would also work.