You're going to be spammed either way unless you use some advanced bot killing techniques. It'd be kind of interesting if someone threw up two contact pages, one with the email displayed and one with the email hidden and saw which one received more spam.
The only difference I could think of now is that the contact form that had the email address hidden wouldn't be automatically signed up for 500 porn newsletters
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