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Old 04-12-06, 07:51 PM
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Do you think its good to have a contact form on all your sites?

Many people I know say that it will just lead to spam, so what is your opinion? Do you just ignore the spam and deal with it just incase someone want to contact you for something important?
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Old 04-12-06, 08:15 PM
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Actually, a contact form can help with the spam because you never have to display your email address and most spammers don't want to bother with the form. So if the choice is an email link or a contact form, you should always opt for the form.
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Yea, what Rooted said.

I have contact forms on my site always. I dont like posting my real email anywhere.
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It is helpful, better than putting your email address online.
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The best solution is to use a PHP contact form, therefore no way of getting you email address to spam you.

My contact form

and heres the php scripting:

Code:
<?php 
// ver. 1.11 - I noticed that some junk mail controls identifies messages send with this script as spam. I changed the headers a little bit to solve this problem. The header location function is only used now if the mail is posted successfully. 
//ver 1.10 added some headers, incl. Mime mail to be accepted by more mail servers 

$goto_after_mail = "thankyou.html"; // this is the page which is shown after the mail is submitted 
$from_mail = $_REQUEST['from_Email']; 
$from_name = $_REQUEST['from_Name']; // use both value's from your form 
$header = "From: \"$from_name\" <$from_mail>\r\n"; 
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$header .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"utf-8\"\r\n"; 
$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n"; 
$subject = "Your webform posted at ".date("d-m-Y"); //your mailsubject incl. current date 
foreach ($_REQUEST as $key => $val) { 
    if ($key != "from_email" && $key != "from_name") { //skip, this values are already in the header 
        $body .= $key . " : " . $val . "\r\n"; 
    } 
} 
if (mail("webmaster@apnaonline.ca", $subject, $body, $header)) { 
    header("Location: ".$goto_after_mail); 
} 
?>
You can customize it however you want. I haven't received any spam yet, except for a couple form people who have taken the time to fill out the form and put spam sites in the "comment" box.

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Default Re: Contact Us Forms

Every site should have a contact form. A user may have a question, complaint or concern and want an immediate response.
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Again its a servie to your visitors, you may get no responses, but its there in case.

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I get a lot of spam through it even with my verification procedures enabled.=[
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I dont think theres a way to eliminate the spam.

How many spam emails do you get?

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