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The disadvantages of having a mailform

Posted at 02:36 on February 1st, 2005 | Quote | Edit | Delete
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Just received this e-mail:

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From: www.Fihsbone.ro
Subject: Help

You vante help i vil help you ok


Ok.... now let's see what's wrong with this mail:
-'From' is no e-mail address, but the (failed) try to write an URL; how am I supposed to reply?
-'Subject' is totaly nondescriptive; it's a wonder it got through my spam filter.
-Neither does the sender say what he / she wants to help with, nor in what way
-The language skills shown in this one 'sentence' are so low that I seriously have to wonder if this person would be able to 'help' anyone with anything at all.

Anyway - before anyone complains that it wasn't nice to show this mail in public, keep in mind that I couldn't do it privately for the lack of a valid address, so I was practically forced to react this way ;)
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Posted at 05:31 on February 1st, 2005 | Quote | Edit | Delete
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Posted by Mr Creosote at 10:36 on February, 1st 2005:

Just received this e-mail:

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From: www.Fihsbone.ro
Subject: Help

You vante help i vil help you ok

Seems you have been contacted by the Terminator. :)
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Posted at 05:39 on February 1st, 2005 | Quote | Edit | Delete
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At least you could check the "From:"-field for a valid-written mail-address by regular-expressions ( :pain: ). It wouldn't guarantee that the address exists, but would be a big step further though, since you could print out an error-message and prevent the mail from being sent.

And I prefer that people are sending mails with stupid subjects to you, instead of creating threads with those stupid headlines here in the forum. :P

But I'm excited for the mails, that I will receive by the new mail-form on my site...
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Posted at 05:40 on February 1st, 2005 | Quote | Edit | Delete
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Seems you have been contacted by the Terminator. :)

Hehe!
"Subject: Are You Sarah Connor?" :D
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