Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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A request for the floor.

People of the Internet, please, please, please, when you use my website contact form to get in touch with me, please include an address so I can respond to you? Sending me messages with blank "from" lines just means...

a) I can't answer, even if you ask direct questions, and
b) I get really frustrated, because I at least try to answer all my mail.

So please, please provide me with an email address so I can answer you. It makes things a lot more stressy when you don't.

Thanks.
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Your webmaster most likely can set up the form to ask again if someone tries to submit it without an email address. It might be beneficial for your sanity.
Yes, It would definitely be a good idea to have email addy as a required field
*nods* My thoughts exactly. Except I would code it to refuse the entire thing. That's just me. I'm mean.
This is not an option.
um. why?
Because of code reasons.
that's really odd. i know your site isn't built with wordpress like mine but i have a contact plugin that lets me configure however i want it to - mostly to keep spammers from annoying the hell out of me. it can't be that hard to make a line with email as a required field. one of my friends handbuilt his contact page. i can find out what he did.
Mari, please don't take this the wrong way, but no, thank you. There are a great many factors involved in maintaining my website, which is constructed in CSS and has a hand-coded back end. It is not currently possible; when it is possible, my webmaster will handle it; I really don't want to go into detail on why I cannot make an on-the-fly code demand, and I don't want to confuse things with outside code.

Thank you for understanding.
This is not an option.