Guests, please read this before posting a new topic!

[Wizcrafts]

We have lots of guests posting requests for assistance with their leather work and projects. Many of the responders will be full members of Leatherworker.net. As such, they are accustomed to making use of our private messages (PM) system and also are able to access the email addresses of other members. But Guests do NOT have access to either, nor can you look up the profiles of our members.

Therefore, if you are posting a new topic or simply replying to another person's topic and are not a member of Leatherworker.net, make sure you include your contact information. The most common ways of doing this are by listing a phone number, an email address, or a link to your publicly viewable website or blog where you have a contact form, or email link.

As for posting email addresses, please take time to read my sticky topic that is pinned to the top of this forum, dealing with altering your email address to avoid having it harvested by spam bots. If you don't have time to read the topic, it boils down to obfuscating your email address so it is broken up into space separated groups and certain symbols (period, dash, underscore, @) are replaced with words.

If you posted a topic or request for assistance, without listing contact info and don't get any replies, check back and see if a member has invited you to reply via the PM or email system. Post a reply to him or her and include your contact details.

Members; if you are replying to Guest posters and want to offer assistance, either use their posted contact info or show your own in your replies. Make sure you obfuscate your email address before posting it, to avoid spam bots that harvest plain text email addresses from web pages.

[Wizcrafts]

Here is a link to Google search results for "obfuscate your email address." There are plenty of suggestions and even an online tool to do the work for you.

Obfuscate means to obscure (verb) something; to conceal a meaning from plain sight.