Helvensteijn.com

Primary means of contacting me

The easiest way to get in touch with me is to either e-mail me at colin-NOSPAM-@-NOSPAM-helvensteijn.com or mention @chelvensteijn on Twitter.

Alternative means of contacting me

You could add im-NOSPAM-@-NOSPAM-helvensteijn.com to your Windows Live/MSN contact list and see if I’m online (not very often, though). Other contact information, such as my home/postal address or phone number, can be obtained (with sufficiently good reason) by e-mail.

Spam protection

These days, it is no longer safe to put an e-mail address on a web page in plain text. Programs exist that crawl the web in search for e-mail addresses, with the sole purpose of spamming their mailboxes. Therefore, I have protected e-mail addresses on this web site against these so-called spam bots.

It involves no more than inserting <span style="display:none">-NOSPAM-</span> (or use a class instead of inline styles) in one or more places in the address. Spam bots will no longer recognize a valid e-mail address, and even if they do, they wouldn’t know that the -NOSPAM- parts ought to be removed.

To make things easier for real humans who actually want to e-mail me, I’ve made a simple JavaScript function that removes the -NOSPAM- parts from e-mail addresses and turns them into normal clickable links. Users with JavaScript disabled will have to copy & paste the address and remove the -NOSPAM- parts if their browser includes those (some do, some don’t).