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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Apr 7, 2009 8:10PM

I know there is, because I did it a few years back. But you don't want to do
it, and I'll tell you why...

Spammers will hijack the form and use it to send spam to thousands of
people. Someone the spam gets sent to will report it to your web host, and
your web host will shut your account down.

Needless to say, that's not a good thing.


On 4/7/09 4:03 PM, "Tom Dussault" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Dear WebAIM and helpful friends,
>
> I'm not entirely new to this group, but this is my first time actually
> posting a valid question. I mostly read what other people post, and I get a
> better idea of what the industry is doing (and let me say, this is a great
> group and a source of information that I've read.) To those who have no
> idea who I am, let me introduce myself: I'm Thomas Dussault, a designer and
> graphic artist. However just recently i've started to jump back into the
> field after years of not doing anything - to getting a nice work load out of
> no where. I've designed various of web-sites, and many different designs for
> smaller end business. This time however, I've come across something that
> seems familiar, but I wanted to reference check with the group before I went
> ahead and started.
>
> Is there any easy way to in either Dreamweaver or php programming, a way to
> make a form for clients that can submit a form that in which they have the
> ability to put another e-mail in a field that would e-mail a friend with
> possibly a pre-made message?
>
> Realizing there are many forms that you can make online that can directly
> send to an e-mail, is there any however that can make it possible to put a
> friend or a client that MAY BE interested in what the customer is
> submitting?
>
> Just throwing it out there. Any ideas or ways to execute this easier would
> be much appreciated. :)
>
>
> Thanks ahead of time!!
>