we put our e-mail in open forums (Score 1)

You willingly publish your e-mail address in public forums such as Slashdot, therefore you are encouraging anyone who reads this forum, including spammers, to e-mail you. If you don't want to receive e-mails, don't post your e-mail address so that people that want to contact us they can. Possibly to continue a conversation or to flaim but not for spammers to harvest for thier scummy e-mail scams there is a big difference. If we didn't post our e-mail how would we ever get to start intersting conversations with new people?