CAPTCHAs are commonly used for user registration, contact forms, or failed logins.

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Customer involvement will be gained not through traditional free registration or sweepstakes, but through beta accounts, re-contact streams and peer incentives.

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Another way to get cheap and useful contact information is by placing an e-mail registration field atop every page on your Web site.

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