This form is much less impersonal than it appears, I promise! In fact, I'd be delighted to e-mail you about my research, share a copy of one of my journal articles with you, or chat about undergraduate writing. I just want to keep any bots that happen to be wandering through the neighborhood from adding my institutional e-mail address to a bizarre listserv that somehow evades Google's spam filter and from which unsubscription is impossible. (That's not a moral panic about technology, by the way. That really did happen, and it really was a nuisance.)