Spam crawlers trawl the internet hopping from page to page, searching for unprotected email addresses in your source code. When they do find one, and even worse: if they do find your email address then you best hope you have good filtering because that email address will be squirrelled away and appear on thousands of spam mailing lists for literally years to come. I recently logged into an email account at HotPop that I abandoned almost five years ago just to discover that it was still being inundated with spam every day, even now.
With email’s trumping all other forms of communication for the vast majority of professionals, the ability to include a signature at the bottom of your emails is virtually mandatory: think of it as the heading paper you use when sending out official letters - people are more likely to take you seriously and it gives you an excellent opportunity to not only share all of your contact details with the reception, but also to emanate a further sense of professionalism.
It’s no secret that one of Gmail’s few shortcomings is the complete lack of any native support for HTML email signatures. All you get is a very basic and bland text-based signature:
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