I'm not internet savy. Whats the safest way to give my e-mail address.

To be honest Jerry, I've been using an undisguised e-mail address for years and I get relatively little (~15 per day) spam e-mails as a result.  Although I must confess that I have no idea how all those spammer people learned about my diminuitive physical attributes (apparently people laugh at me!)

If getting spam is a concern for you, sign up for a free hotmail or gmail account and use it for this purpose.  But it's really not that bad. ;-)