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======ARTICLE:
Prevent S.pammers from Copying Your Submission
Forms
by Susan at ©Vector Central Marketing
With around 30 submission forms on our Vector
Central website, plus 10 other websites that we manage, we
are finding that s.pammers are having "their kind of
sick fun" s.pamming our submission forms. If you create
your own forms, then this is probably happening to you too.
What is unusual is that we are the only site
that they can s.pam from our own forms. Why waste their own
time. What kind of sick kick do they get from wasting hours
every day of their lives to visit 1,000s of websites, copy
the submission forms and then send that website dozens of
s.pams per day?
Following are a few tips that can be used to
"slow down" the inappropriate entries:
Submission Forms - Tip A:
The following script can prevent viewers from
right-clicking and copying the html code of your website page.
Yes, there are ways they can still get it, but at least this
way will 'slow down' some of them and prevent the less-sophisticated
ones.
When you copy this script, be sure and paste
it into your text editor like Word Pad or Ultra Edit. Then
"re-copy" it and paste it into the header part of
your html page, between <head> and </head>. This
will keep the script pure and unaltered during the copy/paste
process.
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Begin Script -->
<script language=JavaScript>
var IE;
var NN;
if(navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet
Explorer")
{
IE=true;
}
if(navigator.appName=="Netscape")
{
NN=true;
}
function right(click)
{
if(IE && (event.button==2 || event.button==3))
{
alert("If you need assistance, please use our contact
link. We look forward to assisting you.");
return false;
}
if(NN && (click.which==2 || click.which==3))
{
alert("If you need assistance, please use our contact
link. We look forward to assisting you.");
Return false;
}
return false;
}
if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEUP);
document.onmousedown=right;
document.onmouseup=right;
window.document.layers=right;
</script>
<--End Script
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The above script will work for Microsoft Internet
Explorer and also for Netscape. (You can add other navigators
if you are advanced in html format.)
In the "alert" line, you can enter
your own text. Be sure to keep your text within the "
" and and do not change anything else.
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alert("Your text goes here");
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Submission Forms - Tip B:
Another method that we have found useful is
to frequently change the submission form page to a new URL
and give an entry page. For example: http://www.vectorcentral.com/adv-s-a-submit.html
After someone clicks on this entry page, they are redirected
to the submission page. This submission page changes URLs
frequently and this helps to slow down s.pammers.
Submission Forms - Tip C:
A third method is to change the email address
of the submission form and delete the previous email address
after uploading your page with the new email address. For
example, if you had an email address like mysite@sitehere.com,
if you have a service that allows for multiple extensions
(some call them alias emails), you could create an address
like form-a@sitehere.com and use that address for all your
submission forms. Then when the s.pammers find that, you can
change the address to thisform@sitehere.com and delete the
previous address. That way any s.pam going to the previous
address will not make it to your inbox since it no longer
exists.
Slowing down the s.pammers is a life-long job
if you plan on having a successful online business. It's just
a fact - they are here to stay. But at least we can use a
few methods to avoid 'some' of them.
If you have methods that you use to avoid your
submission forms being copied by s.pammers, we would love
to hear about them. Go Here to enter your feedback and tell
us how you manage this daily battle.
Success to You Every Day!
Copyright
©Vector Central Marketing
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About the Author: Susan at Vector Central, is the editor/publisher
of the "Interactive Marketing Ezine" which provides
essential marketing methods to generate your online success.
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