Hi All. This is just a thought. Many a times we run into discussions which are not useful to the HN community in general, and sometimes we run into people of networking/general interest. Maybe we can carry on the conservations & networking in private and keep HN clean!<p>Please mention your contact info in the "about" section of the profile. The email field is not visible in public. Be sure to be smart when entering email id to prevent spams!
Also, please don't get too cute with techniques to derail bots from parsing your email address. I'm more likely not to email you rather than decode your clever cypher.<p>Maybe you'd prefer to only be emailed by people willing to jump through a lot of hoops, but I'd recommend making it easier for people to reach you, rather than harder.
I've found this to be very helpful - I've received more than a few emails through my HN profile from people interested in what I am working on - often from people who did not publicly comment on anything I was doing at all.<p>There have also been time when I've wanted to contact people and couldn't.
Since this is about your "About" section of the profile, I have to ask: Why are the links you add to your profile not clickable to people who view it? Is it because of spam? Or some other reason? I just found this always interesting to me.