[LINK] Forms (was RE:Putting "no spam" warnings on websites)

[Ash Nallawalla]

> From: Craig Sanders

> any web form that allows the end-user to specify the recipient email
> address(es) is open to abuse by spammers.  spammers *WILL* 
> find it, and they *WILL* abuse it - that is guaranteed.
> 
> if you have such a form on your site, then you deserve to be 
> blacklisted for contributing to the spam problem.  worse, 
> encouraging others to do such ignorant and negligent things 
> is reprehensible.  there's more than enough incompetence 
> behind mail servers on the net without self-proclaimed 
> experts promoting dangerously stupid practices.

I'm neither encouraging nor discouraging anything.  I said that such forms exist
because you commented that you want to keep a record of your communications.  You
will never find such a form on my sites.  They are commonly found on
newspaper/magazine sites for sending pages to others.

Like I told a linker by email, my business domain crm911.com actually has a
parallel set of pages that pass Bobby.  It has a mailto, a form, phone number,
ABN, etc.  But it does not prevent me from stating that others use Flash, use
forms, make inaccessible, unreadable sites, etc.  I don't need to spell out every
time that this is bad, do I?  Do you really care whether I am right or wrong?

> i think this is your own "preferences and prejudices" 
> speaking, not fact.

Perfection is a long way away.  I appreciate your guidance.

Ash