Re: FN-FORUM: refer a friend systems

date posted 24th January 2007 14:01

I never understood those. What friend would supply your email address to
somebody's site. That's what I call a 'wanker' and not a friend of mine.

To be honest if you want people to become involved with your clients
site, provide a referral scheme/system or just ask them to recommend the
site to their friends.

I mean these days my email client fills in the email address. All I type
in is Fred Bloggs and it pulls up the possibilities. I wouldn't actually
know their email address.

If I like something I will Email/MSN/Skype it to relevant people. I have
no wish to ever provide a site with other people's email addresses.
There's enough spam in the world as it is.

Bill Westhead wrote:
>
> Two tips:
>
> 1. sanitise the email addresses; ensure that only a single address is
> entered and no newlines/line feeds are used to force through bcc:
> addresses
> 2. make sure the custom message is only a small part of the overall
> email, ensure it is only plain text, or omit it completely
>
> Also, monitor emails sent through the form, either cc an admin address
> or log to a DB, then you can see if the form is being abused and act
> if necessary.
>
> NEVER allow a subject to be entered, this is just too easy to abuse.
>
> Regards,
> Safehex.
>
> On 24 Jan 2007 11:11:22 -0000, webmetric [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking at adding one of these to a site for a client, and
>> wondered if
>> any one had any pitfalls to be aware of (and hopefully HOW they avoided
>> them)
>>
>> It seems to me that when your asking some one to add there own email
>> address, a "friends" email address AND a custom message, then what your
>> actually writing is a spam gateway.
>>
>> The form WILL be locked down to registered users I hope (if I get my
>> way)
>> but even that is not enough really - on the other hand this needs to
>> be a
>> painless process, so CAPTCHAS are possibly out.
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts welcome.
>>
>>
>> D
>>
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