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Contactify is a new service to create a simple “Contact Me” form that let’s people send you emails without knowing your email address. Create an account in a few steps and get a URL back that points to the contact form, which contains a captcha to reduce spam. It works well, but it would be nice if they widgetized this to allow people to add it to their MySpace page or blog without sending people off to the Contactify website. There also appears to be no way to turn the form off, so once people know the URL it’s almost as good as having your email address.
The privacy policy for contactify is also too generic. They need to make a statement that emails collected will not be used for any purpose, period.
So basically, it’s the same as an e-mail address, except less useful?
And also, you can POST to another server, so this could easily be put into another webpage, if not via changing the form action, then by the use of an iFrame or DHTML.
@David 217999 wrote:
So basically, it’s the same as an e-mail address, except less useful?
And also, you can POST to another server, so this could easily be put into another webpage, if not via changing the form action, then by the use of an iFrame or DHTML.
It’s not less useful, it’s just different. Say you don’t want your email address all over your site, yet you still want people to send you messages? Well this will apparently let you do it. I think it’s a neat idea, and useful for those who are very careful about where they place their email.
@MrEggsalad 218004 wrote:
It’s not less useful, it’s just different. Say you don’t want your email address all over your site, yet you still want people to send you messages? Well this will apparently let you do it. I think it’s a neat idea, and useful for those who are very careful about where they place their email.
Then install your own contact form? Any web service these days offers the ability to send email via php/sendmail, or if for whatever reason that is not allowed, save contact messages to the webserver itself (basically a PM system.)
What is the reason for not putting your email on a website? So your address can’t be harvested? Then build it with javascript on demand, or use an image to display it. Don’t want people to know it because they could spam you… this is just as bad, the contact form doesn’t expire and offers no way of being disabled. At least with spam or annoying users you have a solid trace to where it has been routed from.
@David 218005 wrote:
Then install your own contact form? Any web service these days offers the ability to send email via php/sendmail, or if for whatever reason that is not allowed, save contact messages to the webserver itself (basically a PM system.)
What is the reason for not putting your email on a website? So your address can’t be harvested? Then build it with javascript on demand, or use an image to display it. Don’t want people to know it because they could spam you… this is just as bad, the contact form doesn’t expire and offers no way of being disabled. At least with spam or annoying users you have a solid trace to where it has been routed from.
Well yeah, personally I would set up my own contact form. However, to many people who just want a quick, easy, already put to gether for me way to do things, this is great for them.
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