Re: Contact Info Best practices

From: Urb LeJeune <urb_at_e-government.com>
Date: Mon 22 Aug 2005 09:33:38 -0500

>I almost never provide email addresses on a web site, but
>instead use an online contact form, such as the one at
>http://www.adastro.com/contact.html . The page also
>includes postal address, phone, and fax information of
>course, for the reasons stated by the other posters.

         There is another, and more serious, problem with form.
There is a real possibility of your form being hacked and
hundreds of thousand of messages being sent through your
mail server. You could be placed on blacklists, including
AOL, before you even realize you've been hacked. It is very
difficult to tell the difference a legitimate submission of your
from and one submitting via a remote script. It's happened
to me and I'm a system administrator :-( It took about a
month to get off AOL's black list.

Urb






Received on Mon Aug 22 2005 - 09:33:38 CDT