It is just now that I realized the potential of spammers getting our
gmail id from the googlepages website address we post.

Since the homepage is by default our e-mail id, it would be really easy
for spammers to get the mail id. I believe no one has already started
using this tip.. But it wont be much late now.

Although we can hide the actual e-mail id by putting human readable
clues about our email address, doing so about the website url would be
deterr many potential visitors.

I hope google will provide some way to sort this problem out. (like
ability to change the homepage url..)

It's true. Anyone can get the gmail address from the url.

Today I get the first spam in my webpage email.
For this I have two Gmail emails: one personal and one just for the
page. I don't put my personal email in any public or commercial site.
This is not maybe a solution, but it helps.
(Sorry for my english).

I've thought about the spam issue with respect to putting an email
address on the site in plain text*, but it didn't dawn on me that the
URLs themselves handed a valid email address to spammers.

What we are planning to do is register a domain which makes logical
sense for who we are, and have it forward to our googlepages URL.  But
still, if no other action is taken, once surfers arrive at our home
page and any subpages, the googlepages URL will be visible to humans.
AND I assume that crawlers will find these URLs in the site html.
Nasty.  Fortunately I don't use the gmail account in question for email
very much.

Some sites display the same URL in the browser location bar no matter
which site page you're viewing.  That would be nice for us, but what
really is the issue, I guess, is hiding the site URLs from address
harvesters.

Any comments are welcome - this is all pretty new to me.

* Here's a page which discusses various ways to allow surfers to
contact a site via email, without the site email address falling prey
to spammers:

       http://websitehelpers.com/spam

The better solutions require javascript ...

Don Cameron
<extremely novice> webmaster, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
residing at http://dcc1079.googlepages.com

Hi..

I think the only solution is to use a just-for-receiving-spam mail id
for our googlepages account (as Olaya pointed out.)

I used to do the same some time back.. but when the number of email ids
I had become really bad to manage (even with 4 or 5 mail ids, changing
and keeping track of the passwords can become a mess), I centralized
almost all my serious messages to my google mail account and publicly
displayed only my hotmail account. But now I have used my gmail account
for googlepages.

Unfortunately, it is the present gmail id that I wish to use as my
googlepage (it is just my name and is clear as to my identity.)

But as long as google provides no other way out, we have none.

Regards
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Jasim A Basheer
home: http://jasim.ab.googlepages.com
  blog: http://jabpaacet.blogspot.com
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Try this and you will see the greatness of the problem:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agooglepages.com
About 70 thousands results in 0.09 seconds in this moment. Every
spammer will use this!