April 11, 2009
Our company is receiving a lot of spam e-mails from our Web site's contact and registration forms. What can we do about it? Some are actual, legitimate inquiries.
We recommend installing a solution called a CAPTCHA (http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Captcha) for the form page prior to the submission button.
CAPTCHAs are letter/number challenges that must be retyped into a text box to validate the form. Because computers or bots cannot resolve the word or phrase, the amount of false submission is mitigated significantly.
While it is an extra step for the user to complete, most users are familiar with it and are not turned off by it.
How do I "unFriend" someone in Facebook? I don't want her to see my other friends and updates, and I am not sure why we even connected in the first place.
Once you've logged in, go to the Friends list on the top of the Web page. You will see your current list of friends, with an X on the right side of their box to remove them from your list. You will see a confirmation screen before it takes effect.
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