[musictlk] Inaccessible online contact forms and Websites

Kevin Reeves lists at kevinreeves.net
Mon Feb 21 06:25:17 UTC 2011


The problem with publishing your email on a website is that it can be indexed by google and other crawlers that can allow spammers to better contact you. Also, some folks have multiple departments such as billing, sales, tech support, etc. In the case of musicians, it would be booking, publishing, product, etc. This way, instead of publishing a ton of emails on a site, which will ultimately be spammed, a user can just choose from a dropdown list which department they'd like to send their correspondence to, and that message is sent to that specific address. It really makes it easier on the user and the web master. However, no excuse for not offering audio on a capcha.

Kevin

> I'm planning on starting another thread on this issue. I'm going to
> provide a list of sites, and I'm going to do what Mr Freeman told me
> to do. I'm going to call on those of you on this list, that have
> sight, to go to these sights, and contact the people responsible for
> this mess. Yeah, (Kevin,) captcha is important, but audio should be on
> every site if they suggest captcha. Why not just provide an E-mail
> address, linked with the site, (for example,) billybob at billybob.net?
> That way, you won't have any trouble with the contact forms, because
> there won't be one. Duh! It's so semple! Blessings, Joshua
> 
> On 2/21/11, Kevin Reeves <lists at kevinreeves.net> wrote:
>> Hey folks. As someone who also runs a website, Capcha is important to a
>> degree. These bots get really smart and can really clutter up one's site
>> with spam on blog comments, contact forms, etc. My site, when it is fully
>> rolled out, will employ an audio capcha or a simple math problem. this
>> really seems to help get rid of spam. However, sites with capcha sans an
>> audio option is completely inexcusable. As long as I can click on something
>> and solve it via audio, or a simple math problem, I don't mind capcha if
>> employed properly. Just my thoughts.
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