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

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