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I Hate Spam! A Free and Easy Way to hide!

I hate Spam!!! Make sure your email is a "no show" so that it is completely invisible to spammers.

If You've "got mail" then
"You've Got Spam!"

If you already have a form - even if you don't see the address - it may still be visible to the spammers.
You have to look at the source code to find out.

I hate creating forms anyway. So I signed up for an account at emailmeform.com
It's easy.
It's free! You can have up to 5 different forms on different web pages. They do ask for a link from your page to theirs.
If you need more than 5, then you can get a pro account for less than $10 per month.

Above is a sample form I created - and it has the image verification feature to prevent automated spam.

Sign up for a free account and log in. Then select create a new form from the nav bar you will see on the right.
Follow the wizard and you will be done. You then cut and paste the code to your web page.

You can go to your account settings and choose to save a copy of the form to their server also. This is in case the form doesn't get thru to you for some reason.

You can also check you useage stats and see how many times a form has been submitted and how much spam has been blocked.

Always test your forms. Fill it out on your web page and submit - it should come directly to the email address you have specified.
Nice.

Posted by Eileen Begley, Monterey Real Estate on 10/30/2008 10:15 PM

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13 Comments on I Hate Spam! A Free and Easy Way to hide!

OCT

2008

Interesting tool here Eileen - thank you for sharing. I've used SpamArrest in the past with success, and I know there are other permission-based opt in/out programs as well.

Tim Mancuso

It looks similar to Google Docs a free app at Google. I dont know what is different though. Its free too.

Eileen,

This gets high marks! It's useful. Thanks for posting.

Mike in Tucson

OCT

2008

Thanks for sharing your information. I'll take the timeto check it out and see if I can use it.

A great way to keep those spyder bots from harvesting email addresses on your website. Thanks for sharing.

I do receive spam, but I am not understanding what this Form is? How does this prevent spam?

NOV

2008

Hi Troy; It prevents spam in three ways, One is by not having your email address visible anywhere on your website. Some forms may still have your email visible in the source code. (That's a techy one). The other way is the person has to type in the code to send. And last the service that hosts the form has spam filters that block any obvious spam from being sent to you.

NOV

2008

Eileen - Sounds like it could be usefull but what I would really like is one that resides on my server.

NOV

2008

Thanks for the info, Eileen. I have been looking for something like this. Everything I have found online was too hard for me to implement. I will give your suggestion a look.

NOV

2008

Eileen, thanks for sharing this site. I just started using Google Docs . From what I can tell it works about the same. I will have to investigate emailmeform.com a bit more.

DEC

2008

Thanks Eileen for explaining how this works. Now I understand, and do feel that this would be something that could be useful in preventing spam. Thanks for the free info.

This is REALLY good to know! Thank you for sharing.

DEC

2008

Another good way is to change your habits unless you already have.Some places people go for information really needs to be perfect and pop up less .Less the Merry

Its good to be in the Rain

JUstin Chester

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