me

i don’t care how awesome and forward you think a company is, chances are good they have some libertarian asshole that posts on digg all the time and considers everyone’s email addresses freegame because the user foolishly agreed to the terms of service/they cull and sell everyone’s “see who else in your addressbook uses this” feature/hand-painted pewter dragons and spawn vinyls are expensive.

bestcase: nobody on the team sells it but they spider mailto.

standardcase: your email isn’t made available but it will get leaked somehow. then it becomes some kind of madoff-level junkbond federal reserve note for the mafioso in russia and china and before you know it you can stop into a pharmacia in mexico and they’ll have your billing address and it’ll cost you an extra $130.00US to get out of the country. plus your luggage and everything in there. they’ll need that, too.