I did that, and people complain on my Talk page that it's an attempt at avoiding conversation with them.

RickK

David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

I discovered my crankmail went down in volume notably when I disabled
email being sent from my user page. My email address is really easy to
find, but wikicranks don't seem to be particularly persistent.

- d.

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