Certainly you experienced that your personal email address has been caught by spammers because you receive a lot of junk mail (Spam). Some people react defensive by creating a second personal email address to place in the web. Or they replace their mail address with a contact form or even set an image containing the address instead.
But all of these security actions do not work properly if you get a lot of junk mails today. And all of these actions reduce the functionality of your website, because its not more possible to click on an image and write you a personal mail.
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