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Just curious has anyone ever turned signups around and asked for the person to send an email instead? Something like send an email to signup@someservice.com Th

• teitoklien 5y ago
  I’ve been doing it recently for some of my clients It depends really on how valuable your service is and how easy you can make it for them to send you an email , for example auto filling subject and body using the mailto query parameters , so that they just need to click the send button on their email app helps a lot. It does reduce spam on contact forms , that’s for sure, but I don’t yet have enough data to say whether it hampers signups in a bad way. My clients are pretty happy with this method tho , as it works fine for their domain and who they target on their landing pages. Personally I kinda like this method of signup , at the same time I find it annoying for when I’m not signed into the email I want to use on the particular device I’m using , while I could still send the email from another device , it does remove the ease of having it auto filled for me. But everything has pros and cons, And I kinda like the new upside down way at-least when I build them for the services I work on. Also it has a few issues : While I’ve practically never faced this issue in real life yet , but I can think of someone trying it. Is if they fake the MAILFROM header , I’ve got a few emails personally where they faked the mailfrom and mailto headers , unless you verify them with dkim they can still spam you , but it’s very rare and I haven’t seen any abuse of this method as of yet , however if more people start using it , I can see it happen.