Ever since U2MoL went live during the autumn of ’94 has the main and only way of contributing to the U2MoL been through email.
This has now changed.
I have had a plan to add a contribution form for quite some years but it was not until I moved the website from my ISP to a web hotel that I had the option of using PHP and when I moved to my own domain in 2007 the planning could take off. I’ve had quite some difficulties to decide how to set it up, I am, among other things, paranoid when it comes to spam bots and contact forms.
After having wrestled these issues for about a year and learned some PHP I can now announce that the contact form has now gone live! You can either go to the form and enter name, email (please note that there are two fields for email, one for each side of the @-sign — I hope this will confuse a spam bot or two but not put up a hassle for human contributors), song and the contribution. You can also use the links to the right on each song’s page and the song field will be filled in for you.
Did I mention I am paranoid when it comes to spam bots? I’ve added a question you have to answer correctly to make sure the contribution is sent to me — it is still sent as an email to me but some of the rules that people historically gets wrong are taken care of automatically (i.e. subject and credit line). I hope the question is not hard to answer, anyone that knows a bit about U2 should be able to answer the questions without having to look them up. I hope new fans that doesn’t know much about U2 isn’t put off, but I’ve supplied my email address as well in case something goes wrong. If you have some issues or comments with the new contact form, don’t hesitate to leave a comment!
Neither the song’s title nor the answer to the question needs to be written literally, the song’s name is not parsed by the form and case is not important in the answer, so if the answer is New York then ”new york”, ”New York” and ” neW yoRK ” will all be accepted — but not ”London” or ”newyork”.
