It's so that freelancers can be contacted directly without going through the site. Currently, emails are obfuscated with javascript, but I should really add the option to hide emails (or only expose them for translators).
Yeah - seems like a great resource for spammers :(
I thought spam was dead (for power users at least).
Good spam filters killed it (gmail and co).
Hmm. I have a feeling that any sysadmin out there would disagree that spam is dead.