More spam and sign-up form troubles to worry you
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Regarding yesterday's post about double opt-in forms causing trouble with blocklists, I got this email from Dave Greiner of Campaign Monitor, another newsletter and list management provider...
"This isn't as rare as you'd think unfortunately. When we first launched we made the mistake of using the word 'email' in the email element name for our supplied subscribe forms."
"Comment spammers (and other nasties) basically trawl the web looking for these kinds of forms to hammer. We since made changes at our end to stop this, but some spam bots are even going as far as looking for the word email in a page near a form input and targeting that."
"It's a serious problem that I fear is going to get worse before it gets better. We might even end up seeing Captcha images on subscribe forms soon."
Anyone else with thoughts or experiences on this problem?
More on email deliverability | Tags: email marketing, spam, email blacklists
"This isn't as rare as you'd think unfortunately. When we first launched we made the mistake of using the word 'email' in the email element name for our supplied subscribe forms."
"Comment spammers (and other nasties) basically trawl the web looking for these kinds of forms to hammer. We since made changes at our end to stop this, but some spam bots are even going as far as looking for the word email in a page near a form input and targeting that."
"It's a serious problem that I fear is going to get worse before it gets better. We might even end up seeing Captcha images on subscribe forms soon."
Anyone else with thoughts or experiences on this problem?
More on email deliverability | Tags: email marketing, spam, email blacklists
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