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You know what would be so great? We could have a form on our site, and we’ll collect people’s information and then we’ll build up our contact lists and leads, because we’ll be sending out important information, specials and discounts through email, and people will come to our site from across the Internet to sign up and we’ll be able to email them regularly and keep in touch and increase our sales and customer interaction!

WON’T THAT BE GREAT?!!! Yes, it would be great IF:

… we didn’t get hundreds of bogus emails from random addresses that don’t exist.

… we get e-mails that contain characters we don’t recognize — like someone is submitting scripts or trying to hack our forms or something.

… people would fill out the information I really need, like mailing address or phone number.

… people would fill out the information in a useable format. (more…)