Camilo Gonzalez wrote:
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
I think you are exaggerating, Randal. How much convenience are
you ready to sacrifice in order to fight possible abusers?
If you want to contact me privately, you can click the link
below. If you fill the form, including your own email address,
and submit it, you'll receive a copy of the message. That's for
your record, for your convenience. Personally I think that makes
sense.
That said, spammers and other abusers should certainly be taken
into consideration when dealing with mail via the web.
I think Randall has a point.
So do I. ( He usually has. :) ) I agree that not sending emails to
submitted addresses is a good starting point. But Randal initially
said: "Do *not* send email to addresses taken from forms. Ever."
That's an exaggeration IMO.
It may behoove you to send a confirmation email with a link that
when clicked will opt in a user. This "double opt-in" procedure has
become standard operating procedure for considerate marketers and
an integral part of customer relations management.
Please, Camilo, it's a contact form, intended to serve the same
purpose as a mailto-link. The risk with it is limited (it accepts only
one submitted address, the messages are plain text, and the size is
limited). If some idiot would use it for sending unsolicited messages
(has never happened so far), I would know and would be able to take
actions.
The only realistic option is to skip the copy to the sender. But I
don't want to do that. For the sake of convenience.
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